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Maine Inland 

Fish and Game Laws. 

1905 REVISION. 



1905 EDITION 



OF THE 



Inland Fish and Game Laws 



OF THE 

STAXB OF MAINE. 

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Contains all the Inland Fish and Game Laws 

With Digest of Decisions of the Courts. 



COMPILED BY L. T. CARLETON, 

Chairman of the Commission, and published by 
order of the Legislature. 



AUGUSTA 

KENNEBEC JOURNAL PRINT 
1905 



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I have endeavored to so arrange the laws in this 
edition that every one can readily ascertain what the 
law is. Every person should, and every warden must, 
thoroughly acquaint himself with these laws, to the 
end that poaching shall cease and the laws be respected 
and obeyed. 

L. T. CARLETON, 

Chairman. 
Augusta, April, 1905. 

By tvan^f'^'^ 

FEB 20 190' 



FROM CARLETON^S DIGEST 



Of the Inland Fish and Game Laws of the 
State of Maine. 

"What the law is explained and stated in plain lan- 
guage, with citations from decisions of the courts, and 
forms for petitions, complaints, etc. 

'A state has the constitutional right to regulate the 
killing of game, birds and fish within its borders, and 
confine their use to the limits of the state, and forbid 
its transmission outside of the state. Decision United 
States Supreme Court, i6i U. S. Reports, page 519. 

It is lawful under the Constitution for a state to 
allow the killing of birds within the state, during a 
designated open season, to allow such birds when so 
killed to be used within the state, and yet to forbid 
their transportation beyond the state. 

From the earliest traditions the right to reduce ani- 
mals, ferae naturae, to possession has been subject to 
the law-making power. United States Supreme Court. 
161 U. S. Reps., 522. 

The human race having multiplied, men partitioned 
among themselves the earth and the greater part of 
those things which were on its surface. That which 
fell to each one among them commenced to belong to 
him in private ownership, and this process is the origin 
of the right of property. Some things did not enter 
into this division, as the air, the water which runs in 
the streams, and the sea and its shores, and great ponds, 
and wild animals, birds and fish. Melin and Pothier. 

There are things which belong to no one, and the 
use of which is common to all. Police regulations 
direct the manner in which they may be enjoyed. 



Hunting and fishing are also regulated by Special Laws. 
Provisions of the Napoleon code, quoted and endorsed 
by the U. S. Supreme Court, i6i U. S. R., 526. 

This attribute of government to control the taking 
of wild animals was recognized and enforced by the 
common law of England, and was vested in the colonial 
governments. The power which the colonies thus 
possessed passed to the states, with the separation from 
the mother country, and remains in them to the present 
day. Ibid. 

The state has jurisdiction to regulate and control the 
fisheries in the waters of the state, both tidal and inte- 
rior waters. The right to fish in its waters is not a 
privilege of the citizens in the several states ; granting 
to citizens of this state the right to fish for and take 
fish in a manner and for a purpose not given to citizens 
of another state is not unconstitutional. 84 Me., p. 444. 

The Massachusetts Bay Colonial Ordinance of 1641, 
as amended in 1647, which is an early declaration of 
common rights and liberties, declared among other 
things as follows : 

'And for great ponds lying in common, though with- 
in the bounds of some town, it shall be free for 
any man to fish and fowl there, and may pass and 
repass on foot through any man's property for that end, 
so that they trespass not upon any man's corn or 
meadow.' 

Massachusetts Colonial Ordinance 1641-1647 is the 
common law of the whole state. Barrows v. McDer- 
mott, 7S Me., 441. 

A great pond is a pond containing more than 10 
acres. Auburn v. Water Power Co., 90 Me., 576. 
State owns them, 86 Me., 319. 

One may go to great ponds on foot through unin- 
closed woodlands, but may not cross tillage or mow- 
ing land. Barrows v. McDermott, 73 Me,, 441. 

The wild game within a state belongs to the people 
in their collective, sovereign capacity. It is not the sub- 
ject of private ownership except so far as the people 



may elect to make it so; and they may, if they see fit, 

absolutely prohibit the taking of it, or traffic or com- 
merce in it, if it is deemed necessary for the protection 
or preservation of the public good. We take it to be 
the correct doctrine in this country that the ownership 
of wild animals, so far as they are capable of owner- 
ship, is in the state. So far as we are aware, it has 
never been judicially denied that the government under 
its police powers may make regulations for the preser- 
vation of game and fish, restricting their taking to cer- 
tain seasons of the year. * * * 'pj^g j-jgi^^. ^^ preserve 
game flows from the undoubted existence in the state 
of a police power to that end, which may be none the 
less efficiently called into play, because by so doing 
interstate commerce may be remotely effected. Geer 
V. Connecticut, i6i U. S. R., 519." 

EXPLANATIONS. 

Unless otherwise specified, the sections referred to in 
this book mean sections of chapter 32 of the Revised 
Statutes. 

R. & R. of Corns, means Rules and Regulations by 
the Commissioners, which have the force of law, having 
been adopted after notice and hearing in accordance 
with law. 

P. & S. L. means Private and Special Laws. 

P. L. means Public Laws. 

WHEN YOU CAN FISH AND WHEN YOU 
CANNOT FISH. 

THE GENERAL LAW PROVIDING FOR AN 
"OPEN" AND ''CLOSE" SEASON ON LAND- 
LOCKED SALMON, TROUT. TOGUE AND 
WHITE PERCH. 

Section 21. The words "close season" and "close 
time" mean the time or period during which it is 
unlawful to hunt, shoot, wound, trap or destroy any 
bird or animal, .or fish for or catch any fish, and the 



words "open season" mean the time during which it 
shall be lawful to take these animals, fish and birds as 
specified and limited by law. 

THE LAWS RELATING TO FISH AND FISHING 
ARE AS FOLLOWS: 

Section i, as amended by ch. 132 of P. L., 1905, and 
ch. 263, P. & S. L. 1905. 

There shall be an annual close time for landlocked 
salmon, trout, togue and white perch, as follows : for 
landlocked salmon, trout and togue, from the first day 
of October until the ice is out of the pond, lake or 
river fished in, the following spring of each year, except 
on the Saint Croix river and its tributaries, and on all 
the waters of Kennebec county, in which the close time 
shall be from the fifteenth day of September until the 
ice is out of the ponds and lakes the following spring, 
and except Sebago lake, and Long pond, in Cumber- 
land county, on which the close time shall be from 
October first to April first ; but for white perch the 
close time shall be from the first day of April to the 
first day of July; no person shall take, catch, kill or 
fish for, in any manner, any landlocked salmon, trout, 
togue or white perch in any of the waters of this State, 
or have the same in possession, in close time. 

ICE FISHING UNDER THE GENERAL LAW. 

Section i "And provided that during February, 

March and April, citizens of the State* may fish for 
and take landlocked salmon, trout, and togue, with not 
more than five set lines for each family, when fishing 
through the ice in the day time, and when under the 
immediate personal superintendence of the person fish- 
ing, and may convey them to their own homes for con- 
sumption therein but not otherwise ; but no citizen of 
the state during this time shall be permitted to catch 



more than twenty pounds, or one fish, of landlocked 
salmon or trout, or more than twenty-five pounds, or 
one fish, of togue, in any one day. Nothing herein shall 
be construed as repealing any private or special act 
closing any lake or pond to ice fishing, or otherwise 
restricting fishing. Whoever violates any provision of 
this section shall be subject to a penalty of not less 
than ten nor more than thirty dollars for each offense, 
and one dollar additional for every fish caught, taken 
or killed in violation of any provision of this section." 

*The right to fish in its waters is not a privilege of 
the citizens in the several states. It is constitutional 
to prohibit citizens from other states from fishing 
through the ice in the waters of this state. 84 Me. 
Rep., page 444- 

It should be borne in mind that the above is the gen- 
eral law of the state. There are many PRIVATE 
AND SPECIAL LAWS that prohibit ICE FISHING 
at any time on various lakes and ponds, and close vari- 
ous streams and make special regulations as to fishing. 

AS FOLLOWS: 

Ponds closed to ice fishing in 

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY. 

Chapter 407 of the P. & S. L. of 1903. 

Sec. I. Allen pond in Greene, Lake Auburn, Brettuns 
pond in Livermore, and Androscoggin pond partly in 
this county and partly in Kennbec, (also Pleasant pond 
in Turner. R. R. of Coms.) 

TRIBUTARIES CLOSED. 

It is unlawful to fish in the tributaries to Lake 
Auburn (and all that part of the waters of said Lake 
Auburn and Townsend brook, so called, that lie north 
of the road leading from the Turner road, so called, to 



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North Auburn Village and crossing said Townsend 
brook, shall be considered as tributary waters of said 
Lake Auburn), the tributaries to Taylor pond in the 
city of Auburn, the tributaries to Brettuns pond in 
Livermore, the tributaries to Big Bear pond situated 
partly in Turner, (and see Whitney, Hogan and Tripp 
ponds in Oxford county, partly in Androscoggin 
county). 

It is unlawful to catch or kill any black bass less 
than 12 inches in length, or more than lo in any one 
day by one person, in Sabattus pond. 

AROOSTOOK COUNTY. 

On Number Nine lake, in T. 9, R. 3, the close time 
shall be from October first to June first of the follow- 
ing year. 

TRIBUTARIES CLOSED. 

P. & S. L. 1905, ch. 246. It is unlawful to fish for any 
kind of fish at any time in the inlet stream of Squa 
Pan lake, or in the east branch of said inlet above what 
is known as "Thomas Thibadeau's lower landing." 

The tributaries to Madawaska lake are closed to all 
fishing, 

Ross and Conroy lakes, in Littleton and Monticello, 
are closed to all fishing until April 22, 1906. 

(See Baskahegan, Chepenticook, Schoodic Grand, 
North, Brackett, and Longfellow lakes, and Hot brook 
and Baskahegan stream, in Washington county, partly 
in Aroostook.) 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

It is unlawful to catch any fish except eels in Matta- 
wamkeag lake except with single hook and line, and 
for consumption in the family of the person catching 
them. P. & S. L., 1905, ch. 204. 



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CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 

Ponds closed to ice fishing are as follows: 

Sabbath Day pond in New Gloucester, Thomas pond 
in Raymond and Casco, Little Sebago pond, or lake, 
in Gray and Windham, and Great Watchic pond in 
Standish, (in which last named pond the close time 
shall be from October ist to May ist of the following 
year). Sec. i, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. 

Tributaries to ponds are closed as follows : 

The tributaries to Sabbath Day pond in New Glou- 
cester, the tributaries to Sebago lake, — except Crooked 
river, — the tributaries to Thomas pond in Raymond 
and Casco, the tributaries to Duck pond, or in Royal 
river from Sabbath Day pond to Jordan's Dam. Pro- 
vided, further, that it shall be unlawful to fish in the 
tributaries to Great Watchic pond, in Standish, from 
October first to May first of the following year. 

P. & S. L., 1905, ch. 327. Breakneck brook and tribu- 
taries closed to all fishing, also tributaries of Little 
Sebago lake. P. & S. L., 1905, ch. 150. 

(See Thompson pond, Oxford county.) 

R. & R. by Comrs. : 

Rogers brook, in Bridgton, is closed to all fishing 
until July 4, 1907, between the bridge crossing the foot 
of the brook at the foot of Farnsworth's Meadow and 
the dead water where the brook enters Long lake, 
except smelt dipping in the usual way in the dead 
waters. 

Stevens brook in Bridgton is closed to all fishing 
until July 4th, 1907, between Hart's tannery bridge and 
Long lake, except that dipping for smelts in the usual 
way is allowed in the dead waters. 

Northwest river, a tributary to Sebago lake, is closed 
to all fishing between Fitch's Mill at East Sebago and 
high water mark in Sebago lake, as marked by posts on 
each side of the river. 

Nason and Bachelder brooks are also closed except 



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dipping for smelts in the usual way, between 5 A. M, 
and 6 P. M. daily. 

It shall be unlawful to take, catch and kill any black 
bass less than twelve inches in length in Highland lake, 
in the northern part of Cumberland county, and no per- 
son shall take, catch or kill more than ten black bass 
in any one day in said lake, 

FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

All lakes and ponds lying wholly or partly in this 
county are closed to ice fishing except Indian pond, 
partly in Somerset county, is open to ice fishing under 
the general law. (See Jenne pond, in Oxford county., 
partly in this county.) Ch. 407, sec. i, P. & S. L. 1905. 

TRIBUTARIES. 

The TRIBUTARIES to the following named lakes and 
ponds are closed to all fishing, viz : Webb pond in 
Weld, except Alder brook down as far as Hildreth's 
mill dam, Tufts and Button's ponds in Kingfield, and 
the outlet of the same from Button pond to Reed's 
Falls, and from Tufts pond to Alder stream, Tim and 
Mud ponds, in T. 2, Range 4, Rangeley lake, Ross pond, 
Bemis stream, a tributary to Mooselucmeguntic lake. 
Whetstone brook, which flows into Kennebago stream, 
from the foot of the boulders, so called, in said stream 
to the foot of the falls at the outlet of Kennebago lake, 
Metalluc and Mill brooks which flow into Upper Rich- 
ardson lake, Coos brook, a tributary to Wilson lake in 
Wilton, from its entrance into Wilson lake from the 
upper side of the Wilkins bridge over said Coos brook, 
Holland brook, a tributary to said Wilson lake, from 
its junction with Coos brook to the upper side of the 
Coos bridge over said Holland brook, Varnum and 
North ponds in Temple and Wilton, Clearwater pond 
in Farmington and Industry, Long pond and Sandy 
River pond, lying wholly or partly in Sandy River 



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Plantation, Lufkin pond in Phillips, Four ponds, so 
called, in townships E and D. Sec. 2, ch. 407, P. & 
S. L. 1905- 

P. & S. L. of 1905, ch. 169. For a period of three 
years from May ist, 1905, it shall be unlawful to fish 
for or catch in any way any kind of fish in South 
Boundary pond, Little Northwest pond, or Massachu- 
setts Bog, in T. 3, R. b. 

(P. & S. L., 1905, ch. 21. It shall be unlawful to fish 
for any kind of fish at any time in any of the tribu- 
taries of Webb's river below Goodwin Brothers' mill 
dam in Carthage;) or the North Branch of Sandy river, 
called the Chandler Mill stream, the South Branch, 
called the Crossman stream, Bowen brook. Saddleback 
stream that flows into Sandy river at Madrid village, 
and Ben Morrison brook which flows into Saddleback 
stream, are all closed to all fishing at any time. Sec. 
2. ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. 

P. & S. L. of 1905, ch. 223. It shall be unlawful to 
fish for, take, catch or Km any kind of fish at any time 
in the south branches of the Sandy river, in Franklin 
county, above the Chas. E. Dill bridge, so called, in 
West Phillips. 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

P. & S. L., 1905, ch. 148. It shall be unlawful to fish 
at any time for any kind of fish in Lake Webb within 
one hundred and fifty feet of the mouth of each and 
every tributary to said lake, from the time the ice goes 
out in the spring until June first following, and the 
commissioners of inland fisheries and game shall, by 
suitable monuments, indicate the area in which it shall 
be unlawful to fish as above specified. 

(P. & S. L., 1905, ch. 346. It shall be unlawful for any 
person or party or occupants of any one boat, canoe, 
raft or other vessel or conveyance propelled by steam, 
electricity, hand or other power to catch by still or plug 
fishing, so called, more than four trout and salmon in 
any one day collectively, nor more than two trout and 



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salmon in any one day, individually, in the waters of 
Rangeley lake, Richardson lakes, Mooselucmaguntic 
lake and Cupsuptic lake situated in the counties of 
Franklin and Oxford ; nor shall any one person in any 
one day take, catch and kill by any method of fishing 
more than fifteen pounds of trout and salmon in said 
waters, provided, however, that the taking of one addi- 
tional fish when having less than fifteen pounds shall 
not be regarded as a violation of this law ; nor shall 
any person, under the provisions of section 28 of chap- 
ter 32 of the Revised Statutes, send more than one box 
of fish as therein provided once in thirty days.) 

Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful to fish for, take, catch 
or kill any kind of fish at any time in Rangeley stream 
from the lower wharf at the outlet of Rangeley lake 
down to the dead water at the upper end of the eddy, 
nor from the upper end of the eddy to the mouth of 
Kennebago stream from July first to May first. 

It shall be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill 
any kind of fish at any time in Kennebago stream 
between the foot of the first falls near its mouth to the 
upper falls at the outlet of the lake, from July first to 
May first. 

It shall be unlawful to fish in Cupsuptic river or its 
tributaries, above the foot of the first falls near its 
mouth, except from May first to July first of each year. 

It shall be unlawful to fish in South Bog stream from 
its mouth up to the first quick water from July first to 
May first. 

It shall be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill 
any fish in Quimby pond, in Rangeley, except in the 
ordinary way of angling with rod and artificial flies 
between sunrise and sunset of each day from the fif- 
teenth day of May to the first day of October, and no 
person shall take, catch or kill or have in possession 
more than six fish in all in any one day from this pond. 

It shall be unlawful to take, catch, or kill more than 
twenty-five fish in any one day in Four ponds, so called, 
in Townships E and D. 



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It shall be unlawful to fish in any manner except with 
artificial flies in South Bog stream and pool, so called, 
waters connected with Rangeley lake. 

It shall be unlawful to take more than twenty-five 
trout from Tim and Mud ponds, in T. 2, R. 4, W. B. 
K. P., or from Tufts or Button ponds, in Kingfield, in 
any one day. 

It shall be unlawful to take from the waters of Var- 
num or North pond, in Temple and Wilton, and Clear- 
water pond, in the towns of Farmington and Industry, 
more than three trout, togue and landlocked salmon in 
all in any one day. 

It shall be unlawful to catch any trout in Tufts, But- 
ton or Grindstone ponds, or their tributaries, in the 
town of Kingfield, for sale, or sell any trout at any 
time taken from said Tufts, Button or Grindstone 
ponds or their tributaries. 

It shall be unlawful to fish for in any way, or catch 
any fish of any kind, in the Seven ponds, so called, the 
Seven Ponds stream. Little Kennebago lake, so called, 
and the stream flowing out of Little Kennebago lake 
to the dam at the head of Kennebago Falls, or In the 
stream flowing out of Kennebago lake commencing at 
a point four rods above the Berlin Mills Company's 
bridge and continuing down said stream to its junction 
with the stream flowing from Little Kennebago lake 
except in the ordinary method of casting with artificial 
flies or fly fishing. 

It shall be unlawful to take, catch or kill at any time 
any kind of fish in any of the ponds lying on Saddle- 
back mountain, or the outlet of the same flowing into 
Bead River pond, or in any of the tributaries emptying 
into said outlet, or in Salmon lake or Gull pond in 
Ballas plantation, except in open season and not in open 
season except in the ordinary method of casting with 
artificial flies or fly fishing. 

It shall be unlawful to fish for in any way or catch 
any fish of any kind in Kennebago lake, John's pond, 
Flat Iron pond, Blanchard pond, and all the streams 



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flowing into the same, except in the ordinary method 
of casting with artificial flies or fly fishing. 

It shall also be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill 
in any one day, more than ten fish in all in Kennebago 
lake, Little Kennebago lake, John's pond, Flat Iron 
pond. Seven ponds, so called, or in any of the streams 
flowing into any of the above named lakes or ponds 
that are not closed to fishing, and in the stream flowing 
out of Little Kennebago lake to the dam at the head 
of Kennebago Falls, and in the stream flowing out of 
Kennebago lake commencing four rods above the Berlin 
Mills Company's bridge and continuing down said 
stream to its junction with the stream flowing from 
Little Kennebago lake. Sec. 3, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903- 

(R. & R. of Comrs.) It shall be unlawful to fish for 
any kind of fish in Nash brook, or in any of the tribu- 
taries of the South branch of the Dead river above 
Green's farm, or in the South branch of the Dead 
river above Flagg dam, in the county of Franklin, 
until June 20th, 1907. 

It shall be unlawful to fish in the South Branch of 
Dead river below Flagg dam, in the county of Franklin, 
except in the ordinary manner of casting with artificial 
flies or fly fishing as it is generally known, until June 
20th, 1907. 

Fishing for, catching or killing any kind of fish in 
the stream connecting Dodge and Round ponds, or in 
the stream between Dodge pond and Hunter cove, so 
called, all in the town of Rangeley, is hereby absolutely 
prohibited until June 20th, A. D. 1907. 

Fishing for, catching, or killing any kind of fish in 
Dodge and Round ponds, also in that part of Hunter 
cove, so called, above the bridge crossing the same, 
excepting by casting flies or trolling in the ordinary 
manner, is hereby absolutely prohibited until June 20th, 
A. D. 1907. 

Fishing for, catching or killing any kind of fish from 
the bridge crossing Hunter cove at any time of the year, 
excepting from the time the ice leaves Rangeley lake 



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to the first day of June, of each year, is hereby abso- 
lutely prohibited until June 20th, A. D. 1907. 

It shall be unlawful to fish in Redington pond, in 
Redington Township, in Franklin county, except 
between sunrise and sunset of any day in open season, 
for four years from June 15th, 1902. 

It shall be unlawful for any person in any one day, 
between sunrise and sunset to take, catch or kill more 
than fifteen fish in any one day in said pond, for a 
period of four years from June 15th, 1902. 

It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to 
fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish in any of 
the tributaries of Toothaker pond at Shephard's Mills, 
so called, in the town of Phillips in Franklin county, 
for a period of four years from June 15th, 1902. 

It shall be unlawful for any person in any one day 
to take, catch or kill more than ten fish in said pond 
for four years from June 15th, 1902. 

It shall be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill 
any kind of fish at any time in any of the tributaries 
of Mt Blue pond for a period of four years from June 
15, 1902. 

It shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch or 
kill in any one day more than five fish in said pond. 

It shall be unlawful to take, catch or kill any land- 
locked salmon in said pond for a period of four years 
from June 15th, 1902. 

Waters closed to ice fishing : 

HANCOCK COUNTY. 

Noyes' pond in Bluehill, Eagle lake. Bubble pond, 
sometimes called Turtle lake, Jordan pond on Mt. 
Desert Island, (Narraguagus lake, P. & S. L. 1905, ch. 
170, sometimes called Spring River lake, in T. 9, 10 
and 16,) Crocker and Pickerel ponds, in Township 32. 
are closed to ice fishing. 

In Green lake, sometimes called Reed's pond, situ- 



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ated wholly or partly in Ellsworth, ice fishing is lawful 
as provided in the general law, on Fridays and Satur- 
days of each week. 

First or Billings pond, in the town of Bluehill, is 
closed from October first to May first of the following 
year. Sec. i of ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903, as amended 
by ch. 23 of P. & S. L. 1905. 

TRIBUTARIES. 

The tributaries to the following lakes and ponds are 
closed : Noyes' pond in\ Bluehill, Green lake in Dedham 
and Ellsworth, Eagle lake in Eden, Bubble or Turtle 
lake on Mt. Desert Island. Ch. 407, sec. 2, P. & S. L. 
1903. 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS, AND UNLAWFUL TO 
SELL TROUT CAUGHT IN THIS COUNTY. 

It shall be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill 
any trout in any of the waters lying wholly or partly 
in the county of Hancock for sale, or directly or indi- 
rectly sell any trout taken from any of these waters, 
or to take, catch, kill or have in possession in any one 
day more than twenty-five pounds of black bass from 
any of the waters lying wholly or partly in the towns 
of Eden, Mt. Desert, Tremont, Hancock, Sullivan, 
Franklin, Eastbrook, Waltham, and Townships Num- 
ber 7, Number 10 and Number 21, in the county of 
Hancock. Sec. 3, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. 

R. & R. OF COMRS. 

Blunt's pond, in the town of Lamoine, is closed to 
all fishing from October first to May first of the fol- 
lowing year, and it is unlawful to catch fish on Sunday 
in this pond at any time, or for one person to take 
more than 12 fish in any one day. 



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It shall be unlawful to fish in Lily pond in Deer Isle 
except from the shore, or for one person to catch more 
than five fish from said pond in one day. 

KENNEBEC COUNTY. 

Ponds closed to ice fishing are as follows : Cobbos- 
seecontee lake situated partly in Winthrop, Annabessa- 
cook lake and The Narrows pond situated in Winthrop, 
I,ake Maranocook situated partly in Winthrop, Jimmy 
pond in Litchfield, Androscoggin pond situated partly 
in Wayne, Great, Long, East, North, Little, Ellis, 
McGraw and Snow ponds situated wholly or partly in 
this county, Flying pond in Vienna, and Three-Mile 
pond in China, Windsor and Vassalboro, (in which 
last named pond it shall be lawful to fish for pickerel, 
as provided in the general law, on Saturdays of each 
week, for consumption in the family of the person tak- 
ing the same). Sec. i, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. 

Cobbosseecontee stream is closed to all fishing from 
Lake Cobbosseecontee to Pleasant pond, and from 
Pleasant pond to the New Mills bridge, including the 
Ox Bow, from Dec. ist to May ist following of each 
year. P. & S. L. 190S, ch. i. 

TRIBUTARIES CLOSED. 

The tributaries to the following named lakes and 
ponds are closed to all fishing: All of the tributaries 
to all of the lakes and ponds lying wholly or partly in 
the towns of Winthrop and Monmouth, Jimmy's pond 
in Litchfield, Three Mile pond in China, Windsor and 
Vassalboro, McGraw, Ellis, East, North, Great, Long, 
Little and Snow ponds situated partly in Oakland, Bel- 
grade, Mt. Vernon, Rome and Sidney, Sec. 2, ch. 407, 
P. & S. L. 1903. 



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SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

Sec. 3, ch. 407, 1903, P. & S. L. It shall be unlawful 
to take, catch and kill any black bass less than twelve 
inches in length in Snow pond, or Messalonskee lake. 
Great pond, North pond. East pond, McGraw pond, 
Ellis pond. Lake Cobbosseecontee, Annabessacook lake, 
and Lake Maranocook, and no more than ten black bass 
shall be taken by one person in any one day from either 
of the above named lakes or ponds, and it shall be 
unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale any 
kind of fish, except eels, at any time, taken or caught 
in any of the above named lakes and ponds in this 
county, except Lakes Annabessacook, Maranocook and 
Cobbosseecontee. Carleton pond, see appendix. 

R. & R. OF COMRS. 

China lake is closed to all ice fishing to March first, 
1906. Stickney brook in Whitefield and Chelsea, and 
Griffin brook in Windsor, are closed to all fishing from 
May 31st until the ice is out of the brook the follow- 
ing spring, until June i, 1907. 

KNOX COUNTY. 

Ponds closed to ice fishing are as follows : Crystal 
lake in Washington and Grassy pond in Hope and 
Rockport. Ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903, sec. i. 

TRIBUTARIES CLOSED. 

To Canaan lake, partly in Knox and partly in Waldo 
county, Lermonds and Alfords ponds, Norton pond, 
and Crystal lake in Washington. Sec. 2, ch. 407, P. & 
S. L. 1903- 



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R. & R. OF COMRS. ' 

Tributaries of Crawford pond in Union and Warren 

are closed to all fishing until June 20, 1906. 

Tributaries to Quantibacook pond, the waters of 
Georges river above the town line between Union and 

Appleton to Ripley's mill in Searsmont, are closed 

until the ice is out of these waters in the spring of 
1907. 

LINCOLN COUNTY. 

Ponds closed to ice fishing are as follows : Dyer's 
pond in Jefferson. Sec. i, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903- 

TRIBUTARIES CLOSED. 

To wit: To Dyer's pond in Jefferson. Sec. 2, ch. 
407, P. & S. L. 1903- 

R. & R. of Comrs. Stickney brook in Whitefield is 
closed to all fishing from the 31st day of May of each 
year until the ice is out of the brook the following 
spring, and Finn brook in Whitefield, a tributary to 
Sheepscot river, is closed to all fishing until June first, 
1908. 

OXFORD COUNTY. 

Ponds closed to ice fishing are as follows : It shall 
be unlawful to fish through the ice for any kind of fish 
in the following named lakes and ponds in Oxford 
county, to wit: In all the lakes and ponds situated 
wholly or partly in this county, except North and Bird 
ponds in the town of Norway, the Five Kezar's, Moose. 
Bear, Long, Two Speck, Pappoose and McWain ponds 
in the town of Waterford, Kneeland, Burnt Land, 
Crooker ponds in the town of Albany, Proctor 
pond in the towns of Albany and Stoneham, Upper 



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Stone* and' Horse Shoe ponds in Stoneham, Bradley, 
Farrington and Slab City ponds in the town of Lovell, 
Moose, Beaver, Long, Grandeur and Little ponds in 
Denmark, Lower Kezar, Lovewell's, Clay, Haley, 
Charles, Pleasant, Lower Kimball and Bog ponds sit- 
uated wholly or partly in Fryeburg, Rattle Snake and 
Burnt Meadow ponds in Brownfield, Moose and Mud 
ponds in Paris, Round and Twitchell ponds in Green- 
wood, Hogan and Whitney ponds in Oxford, the two 
Clemons ponds, Middle, Barker, and South East ponds 
in Hiram, Bungamuck pond in Hartford, Keyes and 
Stearns ponds in Sweden, Bickford, Long and Colcord 
ponds in Porter. North pond in Greenwood and Wood- 
stock, and Half Moon pond, in which ponds it shall be 
lawful to fish through the ice, as provided in the general 
law. Sec. I, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903, am. by. ch. 159, 
P & S. L. 1905. 

It is lawful to fish for pickerel only through the ice 
in Jenne pond, in Mexico and Carthage. P. & S. 1905, 
ch. 159. 

It is unlawful to fish for any kind of fish at any time 
in Indian pond in Greenwood until April i, 1906. 

Thompson pond, in counties of Cumberland, Oxford 
and Androscoggin, is closed to all fishing from Sept. 
ist to Jan. 1st following of each year. P. & S. L. 1905, 
ch. 264. 

TRIBUTARIES CLOSED. 

The tributaries to the following named lakes and 
ponds are closed to all fishing: Sec. 2, ch. 407, P. S. 
1903. 

Anasagunticook lake in Canton and Hartford, the 
tributaries to -Little Bear pond in Hartford and Turner, 
the tributaries to Howard's pond in Hanover, the trib- 
utaries to Lake Pennesseewassee and Little Pennessee- 
wassee in Norway, the tributaries to Garland pond and 

*Narae changed by Leg. of 1905 to Virginia Lake.cli. 175 of P. 
&S. L. 



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Roxbury pond, Rapid river from the swing bridge at 
the Oxford Club House to Lake Umbagog, the tribu- 
taries to Songo pond in Albany, the tributaries to Sand 
and Pickerel ponds in Denmark, the tributaries to Bry- 
ant pond in Woodstock; in Pleasant pond and its tribu- 
taries for four years it shall be lawful to fish only on 
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays of each week and 
but 25 fish shall be taken in any one day in these waters 
by any one person. It shall also be unlawful for any 
person to fish in any of the tributaries to Indian pond. 
South pond and Twitchell pond, in the town of Green- 
wood, or to fish for. take, catch or kill any fish at any 
time in Indian pond, above named, before April first, 
1906. (It shall also be unlawful to fish for, take, catch 
or kill at any time any kind of fish in Great brook or its 
tributaries, in Stoneham, the tributaries to Big Concord 
pond in Woodstock, or the tributaries to Magalloway 
river above Aziscohos falls. Chas. 79, 349, 389, P. & 
S. L. 1905) 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

Sec. 3, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. It shall be unlawful 
to take or catch any black bass, pickerel, or any other 
fish from the Lower Kezar pond or its tributaries for 
sale, or to sell the same, and no person shall take more 
than twenty pounds of fish in any one day from said 
Lower Kezar pond. 

It shall be unlawful to fish for, take or catch any fish 
in Ward's brook, Ward's pond and Walker's pond, so 
called, except between the first day of May and August 
of each year, or to fish therein except with rod and 
single line and artificial flies or fly fishing. 

It is unlawful to fish for, take, or catch any fish in 
Ellis river or its tributaries situated in Andover, Ando- 
ver West, North Surplus, and Roxbury, and Town- 
ships C and D, except on Tuesdays, Thursdays and 
Saturdays during the months of May, June and July, 
and to the fifteenth day of August of each year. 



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It shall be unlawful to take, catch and kill any black 
bass less than twelve inches in length in Keoka lake, 
nor shall any one person take, catch or kill more than 
ten black bass in any one day in said lake. 

It shall be unlawful for any one person in any oiie 
day to take, catch or kill more than ten black bass in 
Upper Kezar pond, or to take any black bass from said 
pond less than twelve inches in length, or to take any 
smelts at any time, in any of the tributaries of said 
pond, (except Mill brook. P. & S. 1905, ch. 261.) 

It shall be unlawful to fish for in any way, or catch 
any fish of any kind in the Magalloway river above 
Aziscohos Falls, or in Sunday pond, Long pond, Par- 
machenee lake. Wells pond. Otter pond. Rump pond, 
Billings pond, Barker's pond, M. T. Abbey pond. Upper 
and Lower Black ponds, Cupsuptic pond and Lincoln 
pond except by the ordinary method of casting with 
artificial flies or fly fishing. 

P. & S. L. 1905, ch. 382. It shall be unlawful to 
kill any white perch in Whitney or Hogan ponds, situ- 
ated in the town of Oxford, or in Tripp pond in Poland, 
Androscoggin county, which does not measure eight 
inches in length from tip of nose to tip of tail, or any 
black bass which does not measure twelve inches in 
length from tip of nose to tip of tail. 

It shall be unlawful for any person, camping party 
or family to kill or carry away more than twenty perch 
in all in any one day from said ponds. 

R. & R. OF COMRS. 

Songo pond in Albany is closed to all ice fishing to 
Feb. I, 1908. 

PENOBSCOT COUNTY. 

Sec. T, P. & S. L., ch. 407. 1903. Ponds closed to ice 
fishing are as follows : Cold Stream pond in Enfield, 



and Brewer pond, sometimes called Hynes pond, partly 
in Orrington and Bucksport. P. & S. L. 1904, ch. 265. 

TRIBUTARIES CLOSED. 

Trie tributaries to the following named lakes and 
ponds are closed : 

To Dexter pond in Dexter. Sec. 2, ch. 407, P. & 
S. L. 1903. 

DRIFT NETS— PENOBSCOT RIVER. 

Chapter 453 of Private and Special Laws 1901, pro- 
vides : Drift nets, of a mesh not less than 2^/2 inches 
square m,ay be used by inhabitants of this State, from 
6 o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday to 6 o'clock 
in the afternoon of Saturday of each week, during open 
season, in fishing for and taking salmon in the Penob- 
scot river from the Water Works' dam at Bangor to 
the mouth of Seboeis river, so called, on the east 
branch of said Penobscot, provided, however, that no 
salmon shall be so taken between said points in said 
river except for the purpose of consumption in the 
homes of the inhabitants so taking, and that no drift 
net shall be used within 300 yards of any dam or mill 
race on said river. 

Section 2, chapter 191, Private and Special Laws 1899. 
If in the judgment of the commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game, the privileges granted by section one 
are abused, misused or are detrimental to the proper 
propagation of the salmon fisheries on any part of the 
Penobscot river, said commissioners shall have power 
and are hereby authorized to suspend the operation of 
this act. 

R. & R. OF COMRS. 

Stony brook is closed to all fishing to Sept. i. 1908, 
and Jordan and Dearborn brooks, in Newburg, are 



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closed to all fishing from July ist until the ice is out 
of the brooks the following year. 

Chemo stream or Blackman stream, in the town of 
Bradley, is closed to all fishing between the Stone dam 
and Chemo pond. 

PISCATAQUIS COUNTY. 

It is lawful to fish through the ice in the following 
lakes and ponds in this county, and no others: Sec. i, 
ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903, as amended by P. & S. L. 1905, 
ch. 245. 

Fourth Buttermilk and Little Benson ponds, Seboeis 
lake, Boyd lake, (provided, further, that it shall be 
lawful to fish through the ice in Boyd lake for pickerel 
only during December and January of each year). 
Cedar lake, Ebemee ponds, Schoodic lake. North and 
South Twin lakes, Pemadumcook lake, Ambajejus lake, 
Debsconeag lake, Nahmakanta lake, Chesuncook lake, 
Sebec lake. First Buttermilk pond, Big Benson pond. 
Big Huston pond. Center pond in Sangerville, Moose- 
head lake, Jo Mary lake. Caribou lake, Lobster lake, 
Chamberlain lake, Telos lake, Webster lake, Eagle lake, 
Allagash lake, Munsungan lake, Millinockett lake, Cau- 
congomoc lake, Churchill lake, Chemquassabamticook 
lake. Grand lake, Second lake. Ragged lake, Pepper 
pond. Whetstone pond, and Large Greenwood pond in 
Elliottsville and Willimantic. 

TRIBUTARIES. 

It is unlawful to fish in the tributaries of any of the 
following named lakes and ponds: Sec. 2, ch. 407, 
P. & S. L. 1903. 

Lake Hebron or Hebron pond in Monson, the tribu- 
taries to Twin and Doughty ponds, known aS Ship 
pond and Bear pond, in Elliottsville plantation. Ship 
Pond stream above Buck's Falls, the brook that is the 
outlet of Garland pond in Sebec, the tributaries to Lake 



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Unawa in ElHottsville plantation and Willimantic, the 
tributaries to Moosehead lake except Moose river (and 
the commissioners shall establish by metes and bounds 
the mouths of these tributaries), Davis stream in Wil- 
limantic, Monson Pond stream, a tributary to Davis 
stream, Vaughan stream, a tributary to Long Pond 
stream, Wilson stream, a tributary to Sebec lake, it shall 
also be unlawful to fish in Wilson river, between Wilson 
pond and Tobey Falls, in Willimantic, except from May 
15th to October ist of each year ; it shall also be unlaw- 
ful to fish in Lower Wilson pond. Upper Wilson pond, 
Mountain pond, Rum pond and Horseshoe pond, being 
the upper waters of V/ilson stream, and all the tribu- 
taries of Lower Wilson pond. Upper Wilson pond. 
Mountain pond, Rum pond and Horseshoe pond, except 
from July first to October first of each year, until April 
22d, 1906, (and Marble brook, a tributary to Marble 
pond, or Chase brook, sometimes called Blackstone 
brook, situated partly in Blanchard. P. & S. L. 1905. 
ch. 179.) 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

Sec. 3, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. It is unlawful to 
fish for, take, catch or kill any fish in Little Houston 
pond, in K. I. Works Township, except with artificial 
flies. 

(It is unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill any kind 
of fish at any time in Shadow pond, so called, in Squaw 
Mountain township, except from June first to August 
first of each year, and during this period it is unlaw- 
ful to fish except in the ordinary method of angling 
with artificial flies or fly fishing. P. & S. L., 1905. 
chs. no and 179. 

It is unlawful to fish in Marble pond at any time for 
any kind of fish,) (or in Garland pond, between Septem- 
ber first and June ist of the following year. R. R. of 
Comrs.) 

Somerset County: It is lawful to fish through the 



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ice in the following named lakes and ponds and no others 
lying wholly or partly in this county : Moosehead lake, 
Palmer pond in Mayfield, Ellis, Round and Ten-Thou- 
sand-acre ponds, in Township i, Range 6, known as the 
Ten-Thousand-acre township, Rowell pond in Solon, 
Smith pond in Cornville, Oaks pond in Cornville, Pick- 
erel pond in Flagstaff, Oilman pond in Lexington, 
Pierce pond in Township 2, Range 4, Sibley pond in 
Canaan, Fahi and Sandy ponds in Embden, Wyman 
and Weeks ponds in Brighton, Moose, Mud, Starbird 
and Stafford ponds in Hartland, Indian pond in St. 
Albans, Indian pond situated partly in Franklin and 
partly in Somerset county, Douglass pond in Palmyra, 
Gammon pond situated partly in Somerset and partly 
in Franklin county. 

TRIBUTARIES. 

Sec. 2, ch. 407, P. & S. Iv. 1903. It shall be 
unlawful to fish for any kind of fish in any 
of the tributaries of the following lakes and ponds : 
Lake George in Canaan, Barret brook and its tribu- 
taries and Beaver brook in Holeb, the brooks forming 
the outlet of Fish pond and Little Fish pond and Big 
Gulf stream and Little Gulf stream, Wood stream in 
Forsythe plantation above its entrance into Big Wood 
pond, Hayden lake in Madison, Mosqufto stream, an 
inlet of Moxie pond, in The Forks plantation. East 
Moxie and Bald Mountain townships, to low water 
mark in said Moxie pond, Great Embden pond in 
Embden, Misery stream, an inlet of Brassua lake, Moose 
pond, in Hartland and Harmony, except Main stream, 
Goodwin's brook and Higgins stream below the first 
dam on said Higgins stream, the west outlet of Moose- 
head lake, the tributaries to Parlin or Lang pond in T. 
3, R. 7, Lang stream and its tributaries. Parlin stream 
and its tributaries from Parlin pond to the mouth of 
Bean brook (nor in Bean brook. R. & R. of Comrs.). 
Bolt brook, in Bald Mt. T., is closed to all fishing. 



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SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

Sec. 3, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. Somerset 
County : It shall be unlawful to take, kill or 
carry away more than two fish of any kind (eels and 
suckers excepted) or ten pounds of fish, in any one day 
from Spring lake, so called, (or more than ten pounds 
in Moxie pond or its tributaries, and no person shall 
be permitted to carry away therefrom more than fifteen 
pounds of fish at the close of any one period of fishing 
regardless of how many days such period of fishing 
may cover. P. & S. L. 1905, ch. 20.) 

R. & R. of Comrs. It is unlawful to fish in White's 
pond, in Palmyra, from October first to May first of 
the following year. 

It is unlawful to fish for any kind of fish through 
the ice in Big Indian and Little Indian ponds in the 
town of St. Albans except on Saturday of each week 
between daylight and dark. 

It is unlawful to fish for any kind of fish in any way 
in Parlin stream, from August 15th to May ist follow- 
ing of each year. 

It is unlawful to fish in Brackett brook except from 
May 10 to June 10 of each year. 

It is unlawful for one person to catch more than 
twenty-five white perch in one day in Mayfield pond, in 
Mayfield plantation, or in Kingsbury pond situated 
partly in Mayfield, or in Smith pond in Brighton plan- 
tation, or in Tomilson or Wyman pond, situated about 
two miles west of Brighton village. 

WALDO COUNTY. 

P. & S. L. 1905, ch. 259. There is an annual close 
time in which it is unlawful to fish for any kind of fish 
on the streams known as Sandy and Half Moon 
streams and their tributaries, and the tributaries to 
Unity pond, from the first day of July to the first day 
of May of each year. 



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p. & S. L. 1905, ch. 238, Lake St. George. The open 
time for white perch shall be from June first of each 
year until April first of the following year, and it is 
unlawful for any person during the month of June to 
take, catch or kill more than eight pounds of white 
perch in any one day in this pond, and only for con- 
sumption in his own family. 

R. & R. OF COMRS. 

Little Pond brook, Shibles brook, which flow into 
Bartlett stream, Bartlett stream, a tributary to Lake 
Quantabacook, and Newell and Thompson brooks, trib- 
utaries to Bartlett stream, are closed to all fishing until 
June 10, 1906. 

Swan lake is closed to ice fishing until June i, 1908, 
and during the same period it shall be unlawful to take, 
catch or kill any trout less than ten inches in length or 
any landlocked salmon less than fourteen inches in 
length in this lake. 

Mixer pond in Knox, closed to all fishing. 

WASHINGTON COUNTY. 

There are no lakes or ponds closed to ice fishing in 
this county except as below : 

P. & S. L. 1905, chs. 78, 203 and 212. It shall be 
unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish 
at any time except for consumption in one's home, in 
the waters of Baskahegan lake and stream, Hot Brook 
lake and stream, or their tributaries, and in Schoodic 
Grand lake. North lake, Brackett lake and their tribu- 
taries, and the waters between Schoodic Grand lake and 
Chepenticook lake, or in Chepenticook lake, sometimes 
called Spednic lake, situated in the counties of Wash- 
ington and Aroostook. 

(Sec. 3, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. Grand Lake 
stream, the outlet of Grand lake, in Washington 
county, and so much of Grand lake as is 100 yards 



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above the dam at the outlet shall be closed to all 
fishing from October first to June first of the fol- 
lowing year, and from said dam to a point one hun- 
dred yards below said dam on said stream it shall be 
unlawful to fish for any kind of fish at any time (and 
it shall be unlawful during open season on said stream 
and one hundred yards above the dam at the outlet of 
said lake, to fish for, take, catch or kill any fish by any 
other method than by the ordinary way of angling with 
rod and artificial flies). 

TRIBUTARIES. 

Sec. 2, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. The tributaries to 
Lambert lake, in Lambert Lake PL, and to Lake Narra- 
guagus, are closed to all fishing. 

R. & R. of Comrs. It shall be unlawful for any per- 
son or the occupants of any boat or raft to take, catch 
or kill more than five black bass in any one day in the 
waters of Hadley lake, so called, in Washington county, 
until June ist, 1906. 

These provisions shall apply to the inlet of said lake 
up as far as the first ripples or quick water, and to the 
outlet down as far as the first dam. 

YORK COUNTY. 

Sec. I, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. The following named 
lakes and ponds in this county are closed to ice fishing: 

Bonneg Beg pond in North Berwick and Sanford, 
"L" pond in Sanford and Wells, Messabesic pond, 
sometimes called Shaker pond, and Littlefield pond in 
Alfred, Middle Branch pond in Alfred and Waterboro, 
and Bunganeaut pond in Alfred and Lyman (in which 
last named pond the close time shall be from October 
first to May first of the following year). 



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TRIBUTARIES. 

Sec. 2, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 1903. The tributaries to 
the following named lakes and ponds are closed to all 
fishing: The tributaries to Bonneg Beg pond. 

R. & R. OF COMRS. 

Horn pond, in Limington, is closed to fishing from 
Oct. I to May i, 1908. Handscom brook, a tributary 
to this pond, is closed to all fishing until May i, 1908. 

That portion of Great East pond, situated in Acton, 
and Wilson pond in said town, is closed to all fishing 
between Nov. 30 and June 15 of each year until 1908. 

Styles brook, sometimes called Hubbard brook, and 
Sanborn brook in Acton, and Ham brook and Heath 
brook and its tributaries in Shapleigh is closed to all 
fishing until July 20, 1907. 

Pump Box or Smelt brook, and its tributaries, in 
Shapleigh, and David brook in Acton, are closed to all 
fishing until July 20, 1907, except to dip smelts as now 
provided by law. 

SPECIAL REGULATION. 

P. & S. L. 1905, ch. 331, section i. There shall be 
an annual close time for fishing for any kind of fish 
in Sokokis lake, so called, in the town of Limerick, and 
in all of the tributary waters of said lake including 
Brown's brook, so called, above the dam at Limerick 
Mills in the towns of Limerick, Cornish and Parsons- 
field, and Long pond and West pond, so called, in Par- 
sonsfield, at the headwaters of said stream, as follows : 

It shall be unlawful to fish in said waters for any 
kind of fish for a period of five years from the date of 
the approval of this act, except that during the month 
of August of each year that bass and pickerel may be 
taken in the ordinary way with hook and line from the 



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waters of said Sokokis lake, and in said Long pond and 
West pond from June 15th to September first of each 
year. Act approved March 21, 1905. 

SUNDAY IS NOT A CLOSE TIME FOR FISHING. 

The penalty for violating any of the above Private 
and Special Laws, or Rules and Regulations of the 
Commissioners, is the same as for violating the general 
law in regard to fishing. Sec. 4, ch. 407, P. & S. L. 
1903. 

PROHIhiiED DEVICES IN FISHING. 

Sec. 2. "Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills or 
destroys any fish, with fish spawn or grapnel, spear, 
trawl, weir, seine, trap, or set lines, except when fishing 
through the ice, and then with not more than five set 
lines in the day time, or with any device, or in any other 
way than by the ordinary mode of angling with single 
baited hooks and lines, artificial flies, artificial minnows, 
artifical insects ,spoon hooks and spinners, so called, 
shall be fined not less than ten nor more than thirty 
dollars for each offense; and when such prohibited 
implements or devices are found in use or possession, 
they are forfeit and contraband, and any person finding 
them in use, may destroy them." 

(Note. — It is lawful to use a dip or landing net to 
land youh fish after you have caught it.) 

DYNAMITE AND OTHER EXPLOSIVES PRO- 
HIBITED. 

Sec. 4. "No person shall use dynamite or other 
explosives or any poisonous or stupefying substance 
whatever, for the purpose of destroying or taking fish, 
under a penalty of one hundred dollars and, in addition 
'thereto, two months' imprisonment in the county jail for 
each offense." 



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MAY TAKE MINNOWS AND OTHER BAIT 
FISH FOR ONE'S OWN USE. 

Sec. 2. 'Tt shall be lawful to take minnows and 
other bait fish, commonly used for live bait, for one's 
own use in fishing, in any of the closed streams in this 
State, and to take smelts for consumption in the family 
of the person taking them." 

(Note. — This does not apply to streams closed to all 
fishing by special act of the Legislature, or by R. & R. 
of the Commissioners since the passage of this act.) 

LENGTH OF SALMON AND TROUT THAT 
MAY BE TAKEN. 

Sec. 48. "Whoever kills or destroys any sea salmon 
or landlocked salmon less than nine inches in length, or 
any trout less than five inches in length, forfeits five 
dollars for the offense and fifty cents for every land- 
locked salmon or trout so killed or destroyed. Who- 
ever has in possession any salmon or trout of less than 
the above dimensions shall be deemed to have taken it 
in violation of this section." 

IT IS UNLAWFUL TO CATCH OR TRANS- 
PORT OR HAVE IN POSSESSION MORE 
THAN TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS OF TROUT, 
LANDLOCKED SALMON OR WHITE PERCH 
IN ANY ONE DAY. 

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Sec. 3. "No person shall transport more than 
twenty-five pounds of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, 
or white perch, in all, at any one time; nor shall any 
such be transported except in the possession of the 
owner thereof, plainly labelled thereon with the owner's 
name and residence, except as is provided in section 28 
of this chapter; nor shall any corporation transport 
more than twenty-five pounds in all, of said fish, at one. 
time, as the property of any one person; nor shall any 



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person take, catch, kill, or have in possession in any 
one day more than twenty-five pounds in all, of the 
above named fish. Whoever violates any of the pro- 
visions of this section shall be punished by a fine of fifty 
dollars for each offense and one dollar for every pound 
of fish so taken or being transported, in excess of 
twenty-five pounds ; and all such fish being so trans- 
ported or taken in violation of this section may be 
seized and shall be forfeited to the State. Whoever has 
in his possession more than twenty-five pounds in all, of 
said fish, shall be deemed to have taken them in viola- 
tion of this section; provided, however, that the taking 
of one fish additional having less than twenty-five 
pounds, or less than twenty pounds, when fishing 
through the ice, shall not be regarded as a violation of 
the law." 

INTRODUCTION OF CERTAIN BIRDS, FISH 
AND ANIMALS PROHIBITED. 

Sec. 5. "Whoever introduces fish of any kind into 
any of the waters of the state by means of live fish or 
otherwise, or whoever introduces wild birds or wild 
animals of any kind or species, into the state except 
upon written permission of the commissoners of inland 
fisheries and game, shall forfeit not less than fifty dol- 
lars nor more than five hundred dollars." 

POSSESSION OF JACK LIGHTS, SPEARS, 
TRAWLS, NETS,— ILLEGAL WHEN. 

Sec. 5. "The having in possession of any jack light, 
spear, trawl, or net, other than a dip net, in any camp, 
lodge, or place of resort for hunters or fishermen, in the 
inland territory of the state, shall be prima facie evi- 
dence that the same is kept for unlawful use ; and they 
may be seized by any officer authorized to enforce the 
inland fish and game laws. Whoever is convicted of 



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having any of the above named implements in his pos- 
session unlawfully as aforesaid, shall be fined fifty dol- 
lars and costs of prosecution." 

EELS, SUCKERS, WHITE FISH AND CUSK. 

Sec. 6. "In closed waters where eels, suckers, cusk 
and white fish abound, the commissioners may grant 
permits to take the same and dispose of them for food 
purposes ; and where an exclusive right is granted to 
take eels in any river or stream or part thereof, they 
may grant such permit upon such terms as they deem 
reasonable, and such permits shall expire with the 
calendar year; and it shall be lawful to take suckers 
with spears or hook and line in any closed tributaries 
from the time the ice goes out in the spring until June 
first." 

PROTECTION OF SCREENS. 

Sec. 40. '"'Whoever shall take up, destroy or injure 
any screen erected at the outlet of any lake or pond by 
authority of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and 
Game, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty 
dollars." 

COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES 
AND GAME— THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES. 

Sec. 35. '■ The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game shall examine dams and all other obstructions 
existing in all rivers and streams, and determine the 
necessity of fishways, and the location, form and capac- 
ity thereof; and shall introduce and disseminate valu- 
able species of food fish into the inland waters 
of the State, and valuable food birds into the State. 
They shall examine into the workings of the inland fish 
rind game l^ws, see that all violation?? thereof j^re duly 



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prosecuted, and perform all other duties prescribed by 
law. They shall annually on or before the 31st day of 
December, report to the governor. 

Sec. 2^- "The commssioners of inland fisheries and 
game shall have authority, upon petition of five or more 
citizens of the State, or whenever they shall deem it for 
the best interests of the State, after due notice and pub- 
lic hearing in the locality to be affected, to regulate the 
times and places in which and the circumstances under 
which game and inland fish may be taken ; but they 
cannot authorize the taking of game or inland fish at a 
time in which its capture is prohibited by the laws of 
the State, and in all cases where the prayer of the peti- 
tioners is refused, one-half of the expenses of the com- 
missioners shall be paid by the petitioners. Whenever 
they deem it for the best interests of the State, after like 
notice and hearing, they may entirely prohibit the taking 
of any kind of game or inland fish, in any part of the 
State, for a series of years not exceeding four. They 
may adopt and, from time to time, modify or repeal 
such needful rules and regulations, not contrary to the 
laws of the State, as they may deem necessary or proper 
for the protection and preservation of the game and 
inland fish of the State, in conformity with the pro- 
visions of the last two preceding sections. They shall 
file, in the office of the clerks of the cities and towns 
in the territory to be affected, a copy of the rules 
and regulations adopted by them, and publish the 
same three weeks successively in a newspaper printed 
in the county, and post on the banks of waters to be 
affected, as nearly as may be like notices ; and when- 
ever any such rules or regulations apply to any unor- 
ganized township, a like copy shall be filed with the 
clerk of courts for that county and published three 
weeks successively in a newspaper printed in the 
county; they shall immediately upon the adoption 
of any rules and regulations contemplated by this act, 
file an attested copy of the same in the office of the 
secretary of state. 



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"Sec. 37. Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills, or 
destroys any inland fish, in any manner or at any time, 
in violation of any of the rules and regulations of the 
commissioners of inland fisheries and game, made and 
promulgated in conformity with the provisions of this 
chapter, shall be punished in the same manner and to the 
same extent as is provided for by law for the illegal 
taking, catching, killing or destroying of any such inland 
fish. 

"Sec. 38. Whoever at any time or in any manner 
hunts, chases, catches, kills, takes, has in possession, 
or destroys any inland game, in violation of any of the 
rules and regulations of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game, made and promulgated in conform- 
ity with the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished 
in the same manner and to the same extent as is pro- 
vided for by law for the illegal hunting, chasing, catch- 
ing, killing, taking, having in possession, or destroying 
of any such inland game. 

"Sec. 39. Whoever wilfully mutilates, defaces or 
destroys any notice, rule, or regulation of the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, posted in con- 
formity with the provisions of this chapter, shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, to be re- 
covered by complaint or indictment; and one-half of 
said fine shall be paid to the prosecutor. 

"Sec. 40. Said commissioners of fisheries and game 
may take fish and game of any kind when, where, and 
in such manner as they choose, for the purposes of 
science and of cultivation and dissemination, and they 
may grant written permits to other persons to take fish 
and game for the same purposes, and may introduce or 
permit to be introduced, any kind of fish into any 
waters. They may, after a hearing, set apart, for a 
term not exceeding ten years, any waters for the use of 
themselves, or of the United States commissioner of 
fish and fisheries, in the prosecution of the work of fish 
culture and of scientific research relative to fishes. The 
order setting apart such waters shall be recorded in the 



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registry of deeds of the county in which they are situ- 
ated. In the waters so set apart, they and the United 
States commissioner of fish and fisheries, and persons 
acting under their authority may, in their respective fish 
culture and scientific work, take fish at any time or in 
any manner, and erect and maintain any fixtures nec- 
essary for such purposes. No other person shall take or 
kill any fish, or use any implement for fishing therein, 
under a penalty of not less than ten nor more than one 
hundred dollars, and a further penalty of one dollar for 
each fish so taken or killed ; provided, however, that be- 
fore such hearing they shall give notice thereof, by pub- 
lication of their intention for two successive weeks in at 
least one newspaper printed in the county where such 
waters lie. They are authorized to grant permission 
to take moose, caribou, deer, and birds for park pur- 
poses in this State, under such rules, regulations, and 
conditions as they shall establish. They may, under 
such rules and regulations as they may establish, per- 
mit the taking of eels and white fish in the inland 
waters of the State. They shall have authority to cause 
the destruction of all mink found in or around any fish 
hatchery or feeding station in this State. They may 
upon petition of ten or more taxpayers, residents in the 
locality, adopt such needful rules and regulations, not 
contrary to the general laws of the State, as may be 
necessary to prevent the interference with, or the 
destruction of the spawning beds, feeding troughs, or 
artificial ponds of landlocked salmon or trout, or other 
useful fish. The penalty for the wilful violation of any 
of such rules and regulations shall be fifty dollars for 
each offense. The commissioners may at their discre- 
tion, screen the outlet of any pond or lake or authorize 
the same to be done under such conditions as may seem 
to them just. 



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FISHWAYS. 

"Sec. 41. The owner or occupant of every dam or 
other artificial obstruction in any river or stream fre- 
quented by sahiion, shad, alewives, or landlocked sal- 
mon, shall provide the same with a durable and efficient 
fishway, of such form and capacity, and in such location 
as may, after notice in writing to one or more of said 
owners or occupants and a hearing thereon, be deter- 
mined by the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game by written notice to some owner or occupant 
specifying the location, form, and capacity of the 
required fishway, and the time within which it shall be 
built; and said owner or occupant shall keep said fish- 
way in repair, and open and free from obstruction for 
the passage of fish, during such times as are prescribed 
by law ; provided, however, that in case of disagree- 
ment between said commissioners and the owner or 
occupant of any dam, as to the propriety and safety of 
the plan submitted to the owner or occupant of such 
dam for the location and construction of the fishway, 
such owner or occupant may appeal to the county com- 
missioners of the county where the dam is located, 
within twenty days after notice of the determination, 
from the commissioners of inland fisheries and game by 
giving to the latter named commissioners notice in writ- 
ing of such appeal within that time, stating therein the 
reasons therefor; and at the request of the appellant or 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game the 
senior commissioners in office of any two adjoining 
counties shall be associated with them, who shall 
appoint a time to view the premises and hear the parties 
and give due notice thereof, and after such hearing they 
shall decide the question submitted, and cause record 
to be made thereof, and their decision shall be final as 
to the plan and location appealed from. If the require- 
ments of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game 
are affirmed, the appellants shall be liable for the costs 
arising after the appeal, otherwise they shall be paid by 



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the count3^ If a fishway thus required is not completed 
to the satisfaction of the commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game within the time specified, every owner 
or occupant shall forfeit not more than one hundred nor 
less than twenty dollars for every day of such neglect 
between the first days of May and November. On the 
completion of a fishway to the satisfaction of the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game, or at any sub- 
sequent time, they shall prescribe in writing the time 
during which the same shall be kept open and free from 
obstruction to the passage of fish each year, and a copy 
of such writing shall be served on the owner or occu- 
pant of the dam. The commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game may change the time as they see fit. 
Unless otherwise provided, fishways shall be kept open 
and unobstructed from the first day of May to the 
fifteenth day of July. The penalty for neglecting to 
comply with this section, or with any regulations made 
in accordance herewith, is not less than twenty nor 
more than one hundred dollars for every day of such 
neglect. 

"Sec. 42. Whenever the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game find a fishway out of repair or need- 
ing alterations, they may, as in the case of new fish- 
ways, require the owner or occupant to make such 
repairs or alterations ; and all proceedings in such cases 
and the penalty for neglect shall be as provided in the 
preceding sections, without appeal. If the dam is 
owned and occupied by more than one person, each 
is liable for the cost of erecting and maintaining such 
fishway, in proportion to his interest in the dam, and if 
any owner or occupant neglects or refuses to join with 
the others in erecting or maintaining such fishway, the 
other owners or occupants shall erect or repair the 
same, and have an action on the case against such delin- 
quent for his share of the expenses. If the owner or 
occupant of such dam resides out of the State, said pen- 
alties may be recovered by a libel against the dam and 
lanrf on which it stands, filed in the supreme judicial 



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court in the county where it is located, in the name of 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game or of 
any fish wardens who shall give to such owner or occu- 
pant, and all persons interested therein, such notice as 
the court or any justice thereof in vacation, orders, and 
the court may render judgment therein, against said 
dam and lands for said penalties and costs, and order 
a sale thereof to satisfy such judgment and costs of 
sale, subject, however, to all said requirements for the 
erection and maintenance or repair of said fishway. 
The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may 
delegate to any fish warden or other lawful officer of 
fisheries any of the powers given to said commissioners 
in relaton to the construction of fishways." 

ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF FISH BY PRIVATE 
PERSONS. 

"Sec. 46. Any riparian proprietor may, within the 
limits of his own premises, inclose the waters of a 
stream not navigable, for the cultivation of useful 
fishes ; provided that he furnishes suitable passages for 
migratory fishes naturally frequenting such waters, and 
does not obstruct the passage of boats and other craft 
and materials, in places where the same have a right to 
pass. Any person legally engaged in the artificial cul- 
ture and maintenance of fishes, may take them in his 
own enclosed waters wherein the same are so culti- 
vated and maintained, as and when he pleases, and may 
at all times sell them for cultivation and propagation; 
but he shall not sell them for food at seasons when the 
taking thereof is prohibited, under a penalty of not less 
than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and a fur- 
ther penalty of not less than one dollar for each fish so 
sold. Any person engaged in the artificial propaga- 
tion of trout, or fresh and salt water salmon, when the 
parent fish are taken from public waters in the state, 
shall retain not less than twenty-five per cent of all eggs 
taken from said parent fish, and shall cause the same to 



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be properly cared for and hatched, and, when hatched 
and in proper condition, to be returned to a place suit- 
able for such young fish in the original waters from 
which the parent fish were taken, and shall cause said 
parent fish to be returned to safe locations in such 
waters, under a penalty of not less than fifty nor more 
than five hundred dollars for each offense. But this 
section does not apply to cases in which the parent 
fish are taken in the manner and at the time and place 
permitted for the capture of such fish for food ; nor to 
operations in fish culture conducted for public purposes 
by permission of the commissioners of fisheries, who 
may affix such conditions to their permits as they see fit, 
requiring in no case, however, less than twenty-five 
per cent, of the young fish to be returned, as provided 
in this section. 

"Sec. 47, No person without permission of the pro- 
prietor, shall fish in that portion of a pond or other 
water in which fish are artificially cultivated or main- 
tained by written permisson of the fish commssioners, 
under a penalty of not less than ten nor more than one 
hundred dollars, besides two dollars for each fish so taken 
or killed ; and, in default of payment, such oflFender 
shall be imprisoned at the expense of the prose- 
cutor, until said forfeiture is paid or otherwise dis- 
charged by due process of law. (See Ch. 87, P. L. 1905 
below.) 

"Sec. 43. The following waters and their tributaries 
are exempt from the provisions relating to migratory 
fishes and the supervision of the fishways by the com- 
missioners; that is to say, Royall river in North Yar- 
mouth, Sewall's pond or its outlet in Arrowsic, so much 
of the waters of the Damariscotta river as are west of 
the railroad bridge near Damariscotta mills, all waters 
in Vinalhaven, Tremont, Mount Desert, Eden, Frank- 
lin, and Sullivan, Pleasant river in Washington county. 
East Machias river, and the Eastern Penobscot river 
in Orland. Uttle river in Perry shall be exempt from 



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all the foregoing provisions that relate to maintaining 
fishways in said river, except during April, May and 
June. 

"Sec. 44. For the purposes of this chapter, the term 
'salmon' means the common migratory salmon of the 
sea coast and rivers ; the term 'landlocked salmon' 
means any of the species or varieties of salmon that do 
not periodically and habitually run to the sea, being 
the same locally known as 'salmon trout' and 'black 
spotted trout;' the term 'alewife' means the small 
species of migratory fish called 'alewife' but known also 
by the local names of 'herring' and 'gaspereau,' and also 
includes the similar species found in tidal waters and 
known as 'blue-backs ;' and the term 'bass' means the 
striped bass of tidal waters. 

"Sec. 45. The provisions of this chapter so far as 
they relate to fish apply to the taking of the same in all 
fresh waters above the flow of the tide and in all tidal 
waters frequented by the various species of fresh water 
and migratory fishes, except to the capture of shad and 
alewives in Dennys' river and its tributaries, Pemma- 
quam riyer and its tributaries, and the Schoodic lakes and 
their tributaries, and to the taking of white fish in the 
Schoodic lakes on the St. Croix river and their tributa- 
ries, by citizens of the State with set nets, during the 
months of May and November, and conveying them to 
their own homes, but not otherwise. This chapter does not 
apply to fish taken in the weirs on St. Croix river, and 
does not repeal the laws relating to the St. Croix, Den- 
ny's, Pemmaquam, Cobscook, East Machias, and Nar- 
raguagus rivers." 

P. L, 1905, Ch. 87. Section i. It shall be lawful 
hereafter for riparian proprietors legally engaged in 
the artificial culture and maintenance of trout, on their 
own land and in their own enclosed waters, acting under 
the direction and written permission of the commissoners 
of inlancl fisheries and game, fo ship, transport or carry 



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trout taken from their own ponds, without accompany- 
ing the shipment in person and without the payment of 
a license fee for each shipment. 

Provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be 
construed to allow the shipment of trout, at a season 
when the catching of trout is prohibited by the laws of 
the State of Maine. 

SAWDUST CANNOT BE THROWN INTO 
CERTAIN WATERS. 

The throwing of sawdust and other mill waste is 
prohibited in the following waters : 

Into any of the streams, rivers or brooks lying wholly 
or partly in Naples, Casco and Raymond, Cumberland 
county; into any of the tributaries of any of the lakes 
or ponds lying wholly or partly in the towns of Vienna 
and Mt. Vernon ; or into McGraw, Ellis, East, North, 
Great, Long, Little or Snow ponds, or any of their tribu- 
taries, in Kennebec and Somerset counties ; or into Half 
Moon or Sandy stream, or any of the tributaries to 
Unity pond, in the county of Waldo, or into the tribu- 
taries of Seven Tree pond, or into the St. Georges river, 
in Montville and Searsmont, or into the tributaries of 
Crawford pond, in Union and Warren, or into Ellis 
stream in Waldo, Brooks and Belfast, or into Norton, 
Brown or Heath Brooks or their tributaries in Shap- 
leigli and Limerick, or into Heath Brook in Acton, or any 
of its tributaries or into Ellis river; or into the Aroos- 
took river or any of its tributaries above the mouth of 
Beaver Brook, or into the tributaries of Upper Kezar 
pond Oxford county, or into Little Ossipee river with- 
in the limits of the towns of Shapleigh, Newfield, 
Waterboro, Limerick and Limington, in York county, 
or into Little Madawaska river and its tributaries, or 
into Break-Neck Brook or any of its tributaries, or into 
Fish river, or any of its tributaries down as far as the 
foot of Eagle lake, except Sly Brook, so called, and 
Wallagrass river for a distance of three miles from 
its mouth. 



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(See sections 5, 6 and 7, of chapter 407 of the Private 
and Special Laws of 1903, also chapters 379, Zl^i 350> 
339j 334> 213, and 96 of the Private and Special Laws 
of 1905, for the full text of these laws.) 

THE LAWS RELATING TO MOOSE, CARIBOU, 
DEER, AND OTHER PROTECTED WILD 
GAME,— ALSO THE LAWS RELATING TO 
THE PROTECTION OF GAME BIRDS. 

CARIBOU. 

Section 18, as amended by section i of chapter 132, 
public laws of 1905. 

"No person shall, within six years from October 15, 
1905, in any manner hunt, chase, catch, kill or have in 
possession any caribou or parts thereof." Penalty the 
same as for the illegal killing of moose. 

MOOSE. 

Section 16, as amended by section 6, chapter 132, 
P. L., 1905. 

"No person shall at any time hunt, catch, kill, destroy 
or have in possession any cow or calf moose; and the 
term 'calf moose,' as herein used, shall be construed 
to mean that these animals are calves until they are at 
least one year old, and have at least two prongs or 
tines not less than three inches long to each of their 
horns. No person shall, between the first day of 
December and the fifteenth day of October, hunt, take, 
catch, or kill or have in possession any bull moose or 
part thereof, and no person shall, between October 
fifteenth and December first, take, catch, kill, or have in 
possession more than one bull moose or part thereof." 

DEER. 

Section 17, as amended by section 4, chapter 132, P. 
L., 1905. 



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"No person shall, except as hereinbefore provided, 
hunt, take catch, kill or have in possession for any 
purpose whenever or wherever taken, caught or 
killed, any deer, or part thereof, between December 
fifteenth and October first next following; no person 
shall between October first and December fifteenth 
next following, except as hereinafter provided, take, 
catch, kill or have in possession for any purpose 
whenever or wherever taken, caught or killed, more 
than two deer or parts thereof; a person lawfully kill- 
ing a deer in open season shall have a reasonable time 
in which to transport the same to his home and may 
have the same in possession at his home in close season. 

Provided, however, that if a deer is found doing 
actual, substantial damage to any growing cultivated 
crops, the cultivator of growing cultivated crops may 
kill the same, and may consume the same in his own 
family but not otherwise, but he shall not pursue the 
same beyond the limits of his cultivated land in which 
the damage is being done. 

Provided, however, that whoever kills a deer in 
accordance with the provisions herein contained shall 
forthwith give notice in writing to the commissioners 
of inland fisheries and game, at Augusta, Maine, of the 
fact of such killing and the character and estimated 
amount of damage done. Whoever fails to give such 
notice shall in no wise be protected by the provisions 
hereof. 

And provided, further, that whoever shall cultivate 
any crops for the manifest purpose of killing deer 
under the provisions of this act shall in no wise be 
protected thereby; and provided, further, that it shall be 
unlawful to place any salt in any place for the purpose 
of enticing deer thereto, under a penalty of one hun- 
dred dollars and costs; and provided, further, that 
whoever shoots any deer in accordance with the pro- 
visions herein contained shall not be entitled to receive 
any compensation for any damage done his crops by 
deer." 



Section 19, as amended by section 2, Chapter 132, 
P. L., 1905. 

"Whoever violates any provision of section sixteen of 
this chapter, shall be punished by a fine of not exceed- 
ing five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed- 
ing four months; whoever violates any provision of 
section seventeen of this chapter, shall be punished 
by a fine of forty dollars and costs for each deer taken, 
caught, killed or had in possession in violation of the 
provisions of section seventeen of said chapter ; whoever 
violates any provision of section eighteen of this chapter 
relating to deer, shall be punished by a fine of forty 
dollars and costs; and whoever violates any provision 
of section eighteen of this chapter relating to moose or 
caribou, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding 
five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding 
four months. The provisions of section sixty-one of 
chapter forty-one of the Revised Statutes, relating to 
the powers of the commissioner of sea and shore fish- 
eries, are hereby extended to the commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game." 

USE OF DOGS, JACK LIGHTS, ARTIFICIAL 
LIGHTS, SNARES OR TRAPS PROHIBITED 
IN HUNTING DEER, MOOSE OR CARIBOU. 

Sec. 18. "No person shall at any time, hunt, catch, 
take, kill, or destroy, with dogs, jack lights, artificial 
lights, snares, or traps, any moose, deer or caribou." 

Sec. 21. "Any person may, at any time, lawfully 
kill any dog which hunts or chases a moose, caribou 
or deer, or any dog kept or used for that purpose. Any 
person owning or having in his possession any dog for 
the purpose of hunting or chasing moose, caribou or 
deer, or who permits any dog owned by him or in his 
possession to hunt or chase moose, caribou or deer, 
after notice that such dog has chased moose, caribou 
or deer, shall be punished by a fine of one hundred 
dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense." 



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(Note.) The question often arises, is a person liable 
whose dog, of his own volition, leaves the house of his 
master and chases deer? Anybody can lawfully kill 
the dog. under these circumstances. The owner or 
keeper would not be liable if he knew nothing about 
it, but if he was informed that his dog was in the habit 
of chasing this game, and does not confine him, and 
the dog, after his owner has this knowledge, again 
chases game, he would be liable. Owners of dogs 
should keep them within their immediate control, at 
their peril, the same as he does his horses, his cattle and 
his hogs. Dogs are not domestic animals. State v. Har- 
riman, 75 Me., 562. One cannot be convicted for steal- 
ing under R. S., ch. I2T, sec. i. State vs. Harriman, 75 
Me., 562. 

Sections 12 and 13, as am. by ch. 75, P. L., 1905. 

"There shall be a close time on wild hares or rabbits 
in which it shall be unlawful to hynt, catch or pursue 
them, or have them in possession, during the months of 
April, May, June, July and August of each year, under 
a penalty of ten dollars and costs for each offense. 

It shall be unlawful to use any snares, traps or other 
device in the hunting, pursuing or killing of the com- 
mon wild hares or rabbits, or to hunt or kill the same 
except in the ordinary method of shooting with guns 
in the usual manner. 

This section shall not apply to Hancock county; and 
in Oxford, Penobscot and Piscataquis counties it may 
and shall be lawful to catch wild hares or rabbits in box 
traps." 

PROTECTION OF SQUIRRELS AND CHIP- 
MUNKS IN THE COUNTY OF KNOX, AND 
IN FRYEBURG, OXFORD COUNTY. 

Chapter 397 of the private and special laws of 1903, 
provides that, 

"Sec. I. Whoever, within the limits of the county of 
Kno'^- ^ills or has in his possession, except alive, any 



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gray squirrel, red squirrel or chipmunk, forfeits five 
dollars for each of said animals so killed or had in 
possession, to be recovered on complaint." 

Ch. 158, P. & S. L. 1905. 

"It shall be unlawful to hunt or kill at any time, gray 
squirrels upon the following described land or terri- 
tory, under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense : 

On any lands lying east, north or northeast of the 
Saco or Lower Kezar rivers, and 100 rods distant there- 
from, from the gulf, so sailed, near Toll Bridgo'. so 
called, to the outlet of Lower Kezar pond, in 0^fold 
county." 

PROTECTION OF DEER IN CERTAIN COUN- 
TIES. 

Ch. 384, P. & S. L., 1905. Open season on deer in 
York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, Waldo 
and Kennebec counties, during November of each year, 
and only one deer can be killed in either of these coun- 
ties during the open season in each year. These provi- 
sions, however, do not apply to the towns of York, 
Kittery, Eliot and Wells in York county, or to Bath, 
West Bath and Phippsburg, in Sagadahoc county, in 
which towns and cities it is unlawful to hunt or kill 
any deer at any time. 

Ch. SS3, P. & S. L., 1905. Close time on deer in town 
of Swan's Island, Hancock county until December 15, 
1908. 

Ch. 332, P. & S. L., 1905, which amends ch. 257 of 
P. & S. L., 1903. Open season on deer in the towns of 
Eden, Mt. Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor 
from November 15th to December 15th of each year. 

Sec. 9, ch. 407, P. & S. L., 1903. Close season on deer 
on islands within limits of the town of Isle au Haut 
until October i, IQ07. 

Sec. 9, ch. 407, P. & S. L., 1903. Open time on deer 
in Androscoggin county during October of each year. 



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Penalty for violation of above laws is the same as 
is provided in the general law for the illegal hunting 
and killing of deer. 

SUNDAY IS A CLOSE TIME. 

Sec. 21. "Sunday is a close time, on which it is not 
lawful to hunt, kill, or destroy game or birds of any 
kind, under the penalties imposed therefor during other 
close time, but the penalties already imposed for the 
violation of the Sunday laws by the statutes of this 
state are not hereby repealed or diminished." 

(Note.) Sunday is not a close time on fishing, in 
the same sense as on hunting. The only law to prevent 
fishing on Sunday, during the open season, is the old 
Sunday law, so called, and is as follows : "Whoever 
on the Lord's day keeps open his shop * * * or place 
of business * * * travels or does any work, labor or 
business on that day, except works of necessity or 
charity; uses any sport, game or recreation * * * shall 
be punished by a fine of not exceeding $io." Section 
25 of chapter 123 of the Revised Statutes. 

This statute also provides (Sec. 28) "that a person 
conscientiously believing that the seventh day of the 
week ought to be observed as the Sabbath, and actually 
keeps Saturday as Sunday, is not liable to the above 
penalty if he does not disturb others by his work." 
But this will not give him the right to hunt game or 
birds or fish on Sunday, though he refrain from doing 
it on Saturday. 

MINK, SABLE, MUSKRAT, FISHER AND 
BEAVER. 

Sec. II. "Whoever between May first and October 
15th, destroys any mink, sable, musicrav, or fishe**, 
forfeits ten dollars for each animal so destroyed; how- 
ever, it shall be lawful to kill muskrats in Lily pond 
in the towns of Rockport and Camden and also such 



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muskrats as interfere at any time with the op«*r;ition 
and maintenance of any canal, d^.Uh, lawful dam, or 
cranberry bog." 

Ch. 199, P. & S. L., 1905. 

"No person shall in any manner hunt, take, catch or 
kill any muskrat in the towns of Hartland, Harmony, 
Athens and Palmyra, Somerset county, for three 
years from April i, 1905. 

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act 
shall be subject to the same penalty as is provided in 
the general law of the State for the illegal killing of 
muskrats." 

Sec. II. "Whoever at any time kills or destroys any 
beaver, except upon written permission of the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, shall be fined one 
hundred dollars and costs and twenty-five dollars addi- 
tional for each beaver killed or destroyed." 

Ch. 22, P. L., 1905. "Provided, however, that the 
commissioners of inland fisheries and game, upon com- 
plaint of any land owner that beaver are doing actual, 
substantial damage to his property, shall have authority 
to take, catch, kill and dispose of, for the benefit of 
the fund for the protection of game in this State, such 
numbers of beaver as may be necessary to prevent the 
destruction of property." 

BOUNTY ON WOLVES. 

Sec. 14. "A bounty of five dollars, for every wolf 
killed in any town in the state, shall be paid by the 
treasuier thereof to the person killing it " 

BOUNTY ON BEARS IN OXFORD AND 
FRANKLIN COUNTIES. 

Chapter 233 of the public laws of 1903, ch. 160, P. L., 
1905. "A bounty of five dollars for every bear killed 
in Oxford or Franklin counties by any bona .IJe resi- 
dent of this state, may be paid by the state trea--.urer.'' 



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KoK-kESlDENTS MUST EMPLOY GUIDES. 
GUIDES MUST NOT GUIDE MORE THAN 
FIVE NON-RESIDENTS AT ONE TIME. 

Sec. 20, ch. 32, R. S. as am. by sec. 3, ch. 132 P. L., 
1905. "Non-residents of the State shall not enter upon 
the wild lands of the State and camp or kindle fires 
thereon while engaged in hunting or fishing, without 
being in charge of a registered guide, during the months 
of May, June, July, August, September, October and 
November, and no registered guide shall, at the same 
time, guide, or be employed by, more than five non- 
residents in hunting. 

Any such non-resident w4io shall enter upon the wild 
lands in the State and camps or kindles fires thereon, 
while engaged in hunting or fishing without being in 
charge of a registered guide, during the months of 
May, June, July, August, September, October and No- 
vember, in violation of the provisions herein contained, 
or any guide who shall guide at the same time, or be 
employed by, at the same time, more than five non- 
residents in hunting, shall be fined $40 and costs for 
each offense and be subject to imprisonment for thirty 
days." 

BEWARE OF SHOOTING BEFORE YOU KNOW 
WHAT YOU ARE SHOOTING AT. 

Sections 3 and 4 of chapter 119 of the revised statutes 
provides that, 

"Section 3. Whoever, while on a hunting trip, or in 
the pursuit of wild game or game birds, negligently or 
carelessly shoots and wounds, or kills any human being, 
shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding ten 
years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. 

"Section 4. County attorneys and sheriffs, in their 
respective counties, shall promptly investigate any 
alleged violations of the preceding section, and prose- 
cute every person accused thereof; for failure so to 



investigate and prosecute, each of said officers ihall be 
punisiied by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, 
and .ihall be removed from office. 

GAME BIRDS AND THEIR PROTECTION. 

Sec. 7, ch. 32, R. S. as am. by ch. 81, P. L., 1905. 
'mere shall be for game birds an annual close time in 
which it shall be unlav^ful to hunt, chase, catch, kill or 
have them in possession whenever or however killed, as 
follows : 

For wood duck, dusky duck, commonly called black 
duck, teal, and any and all ducks known as gadwall or 
gray duck, mallard, widgeon or baldpate, shoveler, pin- 
tail or sprigtail, redhead, scaup duck or greater blue- 
bill, lesser scaup duck or lesser blue-bill, golden eye or 
whistler, buffle head, ruddy duck or broad bill, from the 
tirst day of December to the first day of the following 
September of each year; for ruffed grouse, commonly 
called partridge and woodcock, from the first day of 
December to September 15th next following of each 
year; for plover, snipe and san(Jpipers, from the first 
day of May to the first day of August of each year; 
and it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch, kill or 
have in possession at any time any quail. Whoever 
violates any of the above named provisions of this sec- 
tion shall be subject to a penalty of not less than five 
dollars nor more than ten dollars and costs for each 
bird so killed, caught, chased or had in possession in 
close time. 

"No person shall, in any one day, kill or have in pos- 
session more than fifteen of each variety of the above 
named birds, except sandpipers, the number of which 
shall not exceed seventy in any one day, during the 
respective open season for each; nor shall any person 
at any time kill or have in possession any ruffed 
grouse, commonly called partridge, woodcock, wood- 
duck, dusky duck, commonly called black duck, teal, and 
any and all ducks known as gadwall or gray duck, mal- 



lard, widgeon or baldpate, shoveler, pintail or sprigtail, 
redhead, scaup duck or greater blue-bill, lesser scaup 
duck or lesser blue-bill, golden eye or whistler, buffle 
head, ruddy duck or broad bill, except for his own con- 
sumption within this state, except as hereinafter pro- 
vided, under a penalty of five dollars and costs for each 
bird so unlawfully killed or had in possession; nor 
shall any person at any time sell or offer for sale, any 
ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, woodcock, 
wood duck, dusky duck, commonly called black duck, 
teal, and any and all ducks known as gadwall or gray 
duck, mallard, widgeon or baldpate, shoveler, pintail or 
sprigtail, redhead, scaup duck or greater blue-bill, lesser 
scaup duck or lesser blue-bill, golden eye or whistler, 
buffle head, ruddy duck or broad bill within the state 
under the same penalty; nor shall any person or cor- 
poration carry or transport from place to place any of 
the birds mentioned in this section, in close time, nor 
in open season unless open to view, tagged and plainly 
labeled with the owner's name and residence and 
accompanied by him, unless tagged in accordance with 
section twenty eight of this chapter, under the same 
penalty. 

''Any person, not the actual owner of such bird or 
birds, who, to aid another in transportation, falsely 
represents himself to be the owner thereof, shall be 
liable to the same penalty; nor shall any person or cor- 
poration carry or transport at any one time more than 
fifteen of any one variety of the birds above mentioned 
as the property of one person, under the same penalty. 

"No person shall kill, catch, hunt, destroy or have in 
possession any kind of wild duck upon the shores, 
islands or waters of Merrymeeting bay, Eastern river, 
or the Kennebec river below the Gardiner and Randolph 
bridge between the first day of December and the first 
day of the following September." 



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PJ^OTECTtON OF BIRDS OTHER THAN GAME. 
BIRDS. 

Sec. 8 as am. by sec. 12, ch. 132, P. L., 1905. 

"No person shall, within the state, kill or catch 
or have in his or her possession, living or dead, any 
wild bird, other than a game bird, nor purchase, 
offer or expose for sale, any such wild bird after 
it has been killed or caught. No part of the plumage, 
skin or body of any bird protected by this section shall 
be sold or had in possession for sale. Nor shall any per- 
son take or needlessly destroy the nest or the eggs of any 
wild bird, nor have such nest or eggs in possession. The 
English, or European house sparrow, the common crow 
and the hawks and owls, mudhens, so called, kingfishers, 
and blue herons, so called, are not included among the 
birds herein protected ; and for the purposes of this act, 
the following only shall be considered game birds : the 
anatidas, commonly known as swans, geese, brant, and 
river and sea ducks ; the rallidae, commonly known as 
rails, coots, and gallinules ; the limicolse, commonly 
known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, 
woodcock, sandpipers, tatlers and curlews ; the gallinae, 
commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chick- 
ens, pheasants, partridges and quails. Nothing in this 
section, however, shall be construed to affect in any way 
the protection of game birds, as provided in sections 7 
and 9. Any person who violates any of the provisions 
of this section shall be fined five dollars for each offence, 
and an additional five dollars for each bird, living or 
dead, or part of bird, or nest or eggs possessed in vio- 
lation of this section or imprisoned for ten da3'^s." 

Sec. 12, ch. 132, P. L., 1905. "It shall be unlawful to 
kill an eagle or vulture at any time under a penalty of 
ten dollars and costs for each offense." 

(Note. — It will be seen that the only birds, other 
than game birds, not protected are crows, hawks, owls, 
English sparrows, mudhens, kingfishers, and blue 
herons.) 



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DOVES. 

It is held in all the authorities that doves are ferse 
naturae, and as such are not subject of larceny, except 
when in the care and custody of the owner; as when in 
a dovecote or pigeon house, or when in the nest, before 
they are able to fly. If, when thus under the care of 
the owner, they are taken furtively, it is larceny, 9 
Pickering, 15, 89 Me. 86. 

Perhaps when feeding on the grounds of the proprie- 
tor, or resting on his barn, or other buildings, if killed 
by a stranger, the owner may have trespass, and if the 
purpose be to consume them as food, and they are 
killed or caught or carried away from the inclosure of 
the owner the act would be larceny. 89 Me. 87. 

USE OF TRAPS, NETS, SNARES. AND ALL 
OTHER METHODS, EXCEPT THE USUAL 
METHOD OF SPORTING WITH FIREARMS, 
ILLEGAL IN TAKING GAME BIRDS: ALSO 
HAVING FIREARMS IN POSSESSION IN THE 
NIGHT IN THE VICINITY OF THE DUCK 
GROUNDS IN MERRYMEETING BAY. 

Sec. 9. "It is unlawful to take any wild duck, of any 
variety, quail, ruffed grouse, or partridge, woodcock, or 
any bird, except by the usual method of sporting with 
firearms. Penalty $5.00 for each bird. It is unlawful 
to kill in any manner any wild duck of any variety on 
the Kennebec river or on the shores thereof, south of 
Gardiner and Randolph bridge, or on Merrymeeting 
bay, or the shores thereof, between sunset and daylight 
of the following morning; it is unlawful to hunt, kill, or 
destroy any wild duck, at any time, with the aid of jack 
lights, or any artificial light. Penalty $50.00. 

Having firearms in possession in the vicinity of the 
duck grounds in Merrymeeting bay, or on the Kenne- 
bec river south of the Randolph and Gardiner bridge, in 
the night time, is prima facie evidence that the person 
having them is hunting ducks contrary to law." 



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USE OF STEAM LAUNCHES PROHIBITED IN 
TAKING DUCKS IN LOWER KEZAR POND, 
A PORTION OF UPPER KEZAR POND, AND 
A PORTION OF UPPER KEAZER POND, AND 
IN FRENCHMAN'S BAY, MERRYMEETING 
BAY, EASTERN RIVER, AND KENNEBEC 
RIVER BELOW GARDINER AND RANDOLPH 
BRIDGE. 

Sec. 8, ch. 407, P. & S. L., 1903, as am. by ch. 76 
and 242, P. & S. L., 1905. "It shall be unlawful for 
any person at any time to use boats or launches of any 
kind propelled by steam, naphtha, gasoline, or elec- 
tricity, or any other mode than the ordinary sail boat or 
row boat, in chasing, hunting, or gunning any sea 
birds, duck or water fowl in any of the waters of 
Frenchman's bay, so called, on the coast of Maine, or in 
the waters of lower Kezar pond, in the county of 
Oxford, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five 
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs of 
prosecution for each offense. 

"For the purposes of this act Frenchman's bay is 
defined and bounded as follows: 

"On the north by the towns of Hancock and Sullivan ; 
on the east by the towns of Gouldsboro and Winter 
Harbor; on the south by Mt. Desert island and a 
straight line from Schoodic point, so called, to Great 
Head, so called ; on the west by Thompson's toll bridge." 

It shall also be unlawful to hunt ducks as above indi- 
cated in any of the waters of Upper Kezar pond, situ- 
ated in the towns of Stow and Lovell, Oxford county, 
below Narrows Bridge, so called, or in Kennebec 
river below Gardiner and Randolph Bridge, or in East- 
em river, or in Merrymeeting Bay, under the same 
penalty. 

SHALL NOT GIVE AWAY GAME OR BIRDS. 

Sec, 27. "No resident of this state shall sell or give 



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away any moose or deer or part thereof, or any game 
birds, to be transported or carried beyond the limits of 
this state, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for 
each moose, deer, or part thereof, and one dollar for 
every game bird so sold or given away; and any 
person who shall buy any of the above named animals 
or birds or parts thereof, to so transport them, or 
who shall transport them after buying the same, or 
receiving the same as a gift, shall be subject to the 
same penalty." 

TRANSPORTATION. 

"Sec. 25. No person or corporation shall carry or 
transport from place to place any moose, or deer, or 
part thereof, in close time, nor in open time unless open 
to view, tagged, and plainly labeled with the name and 
residence of the owner thereof, and accompanied by 
him, under a penalty of forty dollars and costs for 
each moose or deer so transported or carried; and 
any person not the actual owner of such game or 
parts thereof, who, to aid another in such transporta- 
tion, falsely represents himself to be the owner thereof, 
shall be liable to the penalties aforesaid ; and it shall be 
prima facie evidence that said game, that is being trans- 
ported or carried in violation of this section, was ille- 
gally killed ; but nothing herein shall apply to the trans- 
portation of moose, or deer by any person or corpo- 
ration, when such game is lawfully tagged in accord- 
ance with the provisions of section 28 of this chapter. 
Whoever lawfully kills a bull moose shall, while the 
same, or any part thereof, is being transported, preserve 
and transport it, with the evidence on the moose of 
the sex of the same. Whoever fails to comply with the 
provisions of this section shall forfeit to the state the 
moose or part thereof being transported, and pay a fine 
of three hundred dollars and costs. 

"Sec. 26. All birds, fish and game, hunted, caught, 
killed, destroyed, bought, carried, transported, or found 



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in possession of any person or corporation, in violation 
of the provisions of this chapter, shall be liable to seiz- 
ure; and in case of conviction for such violation, such 
game shall be forfeited to the state, to be sold for con- 
sumption in this state only. Any person whose game 
or fish has been siezed for violation of any game or fish 
law, shall have it returned to him on giving to the officer 
a bond with sufficient sureties, residents of the state, in 
double the amount of the fine for such violation, on con- 
dition that, if convicted of such violation, he will, within 
thirty days thereafter, pay such fine and costs. If he 
neglects or refuses to give such bond and take the game 
or fish so seized, he shall have no action against the 
officer for such seizure, or for the loss of the game or 
fish seized." 

(Note. — See method of transporting by licensed 
hunters.) 

MAY TRANSPORT MOOSE, DEER, BIRDS AND 
FISH ON PAYMENT OF A FEE. 

Sec. 28. Any resident of Maine who has lawfully 
killed a moose or a deer, or any person who has law- 
fully in his possession one trout, one togue, one land- 
locked salmon, or one white perch, or ten pounds of 
either kind of these fish, or one pair of game birds, may 
send the same to his home or to any hospital in the 
state, without accompanying the same, by purchasing 
of the duly constituted agent therefor a tag, paying for 
a moose five dollars, for a deer two dollars, for a trout, 
togue, or land-locked salmon, one dollar for each, or 
one dollar for each ten pounds of the same, and fifty 
cents for one white perch or ten pounds of the same, and 
fifty cents for a pair of game birds. The commissioners 
of inland fisheries and game may appoint agents in con- 
venient localities who may sell these tags, under such 
rules and regulations as the commissioners may adopt." 
(See non-resident license law.) 

(Note.) A person who has lawfully killed a bull 



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moose, of a deer, may sell them, but not to be tratis- 
ported out of the state. He may take them to his home 
wherever he lives, by going with them, and having 
them properly tagged, or he may buy a license and ship 
them to his home in this state without going with them. 
A resident may take two deer that he has killed out of 
the state (or a bull moose upon payment of a license 
fee of $5.0Q-Sec. 9, Ch. 132, P. L., 1905), or he may cut 
them up and peddle them out, without a license. 

One who lawfully obtains the ownership of game in 
open lime is not criminally liable for havmg the same 
in possession in close time afterwards. 88 Me. 385; 
76-80; 82-173; 75-289. But having it thus in possession 
is evidence of its illegal capture. 88 Me. 385) 

WARDENS, THEIR APPOINTMENT AND 
DUITES. 

Sec. 49. "The governor, with the advice and consent 
of the council, upon the recommendation of the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game, may appoint 
suitable persons as fish and game wardens, who shall 
hold office for a term of three years unless sooner 
removed, and who shall enforce all laws rclatmg to 
inland game and fisheries, and all rules and regulations 
in relation thereto, arrest all violators thereof, and 
prosecute all offenses against the same; said wardens 
shall have the same power to serve criminal processes 
a<-ainst such offenders, and shall be allowed the same 
fees, as sheriffs, for like services, and they shall have 
the same right as sheriffs to require aid in executmg the 
duties of their office. They shall, before being qualified 
to discharge the duties required by this act, give bond to 
the treasurer of the state with two good and sufficient 
sureties in the penal sum of two thousand dollars 
approved by the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game, conditioned for the faithful performance of the 
duties of their off.ce. Inland fish and game wardens 
may serve all processes pertaining to the collection of 



penalties for violation of the inland fish and game iaw.^; 
lish wardens may be appointed inland fish and game 
wardens and need not give additional bond." 

Sec. 51. "i)heriffs, deputy sheriffs, police officers and 
constables, are vested with the powers of inland fish 
and game wardens and their deputies, and shall receive 
for their services the same fees." 

DEPUTY WARDENS. 

Sec. 50. The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game may appoint deputy wardens for whose official 
misconduct and neglect they shall be responsible and 
may revoke such appointments at any time. The 
appointment and discharge of such deputy wardens shall 
be in writing, and they shall have the same powers and 
be subject to the same laws, as wardens appointed by 
the governor and council. 

FISH AND GAME WARDENS, FIRE WARDENS. 

Chapter 108 of the public laws of 1891 provides that, 
"Fish and game wardens are hereby made state fire 
wardens, and it shall be their duty while in and about 
the woods, to caution all sportsmen of the danger from 
fires in the woods, and to extinguish all fires left burn- 
ing by anyone, if within their power ; and to give notice 
to any and all parties interested when possible, of fires 
raging and beyond their control, to the end that the 
same may be controlled and extinguished." 

PENALTY FOR FALSELY ASSUMING TO BE 
A WARDEN OR COMMISSIONER. 

Sec. 24, Ch. 123, R. S. 

"Whoever falsely assumes to be a justice of the peace, 
sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner, or constable, or inland 
fish and game warden, or a commissioner of inland 
fisheries and game, and to act as such, or to require any 



one to aid him in a matter pertaining to the duty of such 
office, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less 
than one year, or by fine not exceeding four hundred 
dollars." 

SEARCH AND SEIZURE OF GAME. 

Sec. 52, as am. by Ch. 141, P. L., 1905. 

"The commissioners and every warden throughout 
the state shall enforce the provisions of this chapter, 
and shall seize any game, fish or game birds taken or 
held in violation of this chapter; and every such officer 
may arrest, with or without a warrant, any person whom 
he has reason to believe guilty of a violation thereof, 
and with or without a warrant, may open, enter and 
examine all buildings, camps, vessels, boats, wagons, 
cars, stages, tents, and other receptacles and places, and 
examine all boxes, barrels and packages where he has 
reason to believe that game, fish or game birds taken 
or held in violation of this chapter are to be found, and 
seize such game, fish or game birds if any be found 
therein, but no dwelling-house shall be searched for the 
above purposes without a warrant and then only in the 
day time, and no sealed railroad car shall be entered 
for the above purposes without such warrant. Any 
magistrate may issue warrants to search, within his 
jurisdiction, any dwelling-house, in the day time, or any 
other place at any time, for the purposes above set forth, 
to any commissioner of inland fisheries and game or 
any warden, sheriff or any of his deputies ; such warrant 
shall be issued subject to the requirments of section 
thirteen of chapter one hundred and thirty-three of the 
revised statutes; provided, however, that the commis- 
sioners shall, on or before October first of each year, 
in writing, notify the superintendents of all transporta- 
tion companies doing business within the state of the 
names of the wardens by them designated to exercise 
the right of search as herein provided, which number 
shall not exceed four for any one transportation com- 



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t>^h^, and no others shall, except those so designated, hil 
authorized to exercise the powers herein mentioned as 
to search." 

PENALTIES— HOW RECOVERED. 

Sec. S3. "Any officer authorized to enforce the inland 
fish and game laws may recover the penalties for the 
violation thereof in an action on the case in his own 
name, the venue to be as in other civil actions, or by 
complaint or indictment in the name of the state; and 
such prosecution may be commenced in the county in 
which the offense was committed, or in any adjoining 
county, and the plaintiff prevailing shall recover full 
costs without regard to the amount recovered." 

OFFICERS MAY ARREST WITHOUT 
WARRANT. 

Sec. 54. "Any officer authorized to enforce the inland 
fish and game laws may, without process, arrest any 
violator of any of said laws, and shall with reasonable 
diligence, cause him to be taken before any trial justice 
or any municipal or police court, in the county where 
the offense was committed, or in any adjoining county, 
for a warrant and trial. Juisdiction in such cases is 
hereby granted to all trial justices and all other courts 
to be exercised in the same manner as if the offense 
had been committed in that county; and any officer who 
shall maliciously, or without probable cause, abuse his 
power in such proceedings shall be liable upon com- 
paint or indictment, to a fine not exceeding one hun- 
dred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding three 
months." 

JURISDICTION OF COURTS. 

Sec. 55. "In all prosecutions under this chapter, 
municipal and police judges and trial justices within 



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their counties have, upon complaint, original and con- 
current jurisdiction with the supreme judicial and 
superior courts." 

DISPOSITION OF FINES AND PENALTIES. 

Sec. 56. "Any officer or other person who shall 
receive any fine or penalty, or any part thereof, for the 
violation of any fish or game law, and shall neglect for 
more than thirty days to pay the same into the state 
treasury, shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars; all fines and 
penalties recovered, or money paid, under any of the 
provisions of this chapter, shall be paid forthwith to the 
treasurer of the state, after deducting legal taxable costs ; 
and such money so received by said treasurer shall be 
expended by the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game for the protection of the fish and game of the 
state." 

SERVICE ON CORPORATIONS HOW MADE. 

Sec. 57. "In case of a violation of any of the pro- 
visions of this chapter by a corporation, the warrant of 
arrest may be served by an attested copy on the 
president, secretary, manager or any general agent 
thereof in the county where the action is pending, 
and upon return of such warrant so served, the cor- 
poration shall be deemed in court and subject to the 
jurisdiction thereof, and any fine imposed may be col- 
lected by execution against the property of such cor- 
poration ; but this section shall not be deemed to exempt 
any agent or employe from prosecution." 

PENALTY FOR DISHONEST LICENSEE. 

Sec. 58. "If the holder of any license, certificate, or 
permit, issued in conformity with any of the provisions 
of this chapter^ shall persistently or flagrantly and 



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knowingly violate or countenance the violation of any 
of the provisions of this chapter, such license certificate 
or permit may be revoked by the commissioners, after 
due notice given of the alleged violation, and an oppor- 
tunity afforded to appear and show cause against the 
same." 

DUTY OF COUNTY ATTORNEYS, ETC. 

Sec. 59. "Each county attoney shall prosecute all 
violations of this chapter occuring within his county, 
when such cases may come to his knowledge, or when 
he may be so requested by the commissioners or any 
officer charged with its enforcement, the same at all 
times to be subject to the supervision and control of the 
commissioners." 

PARTICIPANTS IN VIOLATION OF GAME 
LAWS COMPELLED TO TESTIFY. 

"Sec. 59. In any prosecution under this chapter, any 
participant in a violation thereof, when so requested by 
the county attorney, commissioners, or other officer 
instituting the prosecution, may be compelled to testify 
as a witness against any oth^r person charged with 
violating the same, but his evidence so given shall not 
be used against himself in any prosecution for such 
violation." 

DUTY OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND 
CLERKS OF COURTS. 

"Sec. 59. Every magistrate or the clerk of the court 
before whom any prosecution under this chapter is 
commenced, or shall go on appeal, within twenty days 
after the trial or dismissal thereof shall report in writing 
the result thereof and the amount of fines collected, if 
any, and the disposition thereof to the commissioners, 
at Augusta." 



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DUTY OF WARDENS TO MAKE REPORTS. 

"Sec. 59. In all cases, the officer making the seizure 
or sale of fish, game, or birds, shall within ten days 
thereafter, report all the particulars thereof and an 
itemized statement of the proceeds, expenses, and fees, 
and the disposition thereof to the commissioners, at 
Augusta. 

Every warden shall, in the month of December of 
each year, and at such other times as the commission- 
ers may require, report to the commissioners all viola- 
tions of, and prosecutions under this chapter, occurring in 
his district, together with such further information as 
the commissioners may require. The failure of any 
person or officer to perform any act, duty, or obligation 
enjoined upon him by this chapter, shall be deemed a 
violation thereof." 

NON-RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSES. 

Sec. 22, as am. by Sec. 5, Ch. 132, P. L., 1905. 

"Persons not bona fide residents of the State, and 
actually domiciled therein, shall not hunt, pursue, take 
or kill any bull moose or deer, or ducks, partridges, 
woodcock or other birds or wild animals at any time 
tvithout having first procured a license therefor as here- 
inafter provided. Such licenses shall be issued by the 
commissioners of inland fisheries and game, upon appli- 
cation in writing and payment of fifteen dollars to hunt 
bull moose, deer, ducks, partridges, woodcock, and other 
birds and wild animals during their respective open sea- 
sons in October, November and December. But to 
hunt ducks, partridges, woodcock and other birds and 
wild animals, during their respective open seasons prior 
to October first, a license fee of five dollars shall be 
paid annually. A person having paid the fee of five 
dollars may procure a license to hunt bull moose and 
deer by paying ten dollars additional. Such license 
shall entitle the purchaser to take to his home, in addi- 



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tion as now provided, properly tagged with the tag 
detached from his license, and open to view, ten part- 
ridges, ten duck and ten woodcock that he has himself 
lawfully killed, and under such rules and regulations to 
be established by the commissioners and approved by 
the governor and council, as may be required to carry 
out the true intent of this act and not inconsistent here- 
with. 

All money received for such licenses shall be forth- 
with paid to the state treasurer, and then expended by 
the commissioners in the protection of moose and deer, 
under the direction of the governor and council. 

Provided, however, that the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game shall have authority to adjust and 
pa}'-, out of the funds received for such licenses, for 
actual damage done growing crops by deer. 

Provided, also, that the executive council shall, as 
often as they see fit, examine the books, accounts and 
vouchers of the commissioners of all moneys received 
by them for all licenses or other fees and make a report 
thereon to the governor. 

Sec. 23. Each license shall be provided with three 
coupons, one of which shall permit the transportation 
of the carcass of one bull moose, or part thereof, and 
shall be divided into two sections, lettered "A" and "B^' 
respectively, and shall be called the "moose" coupon; 
the two other coupons shall permit the transportation of 
the carcass of one deer, or part thereof, each, and shall 
be divided into two sections each, lettered "C" and "D" 
and "E" and "F" respectively, and shall be called the 
"deer" coupons. 

The holder of a non-resdent hunter's license shall be 
entitled to offer for transportation and have transported, 
within or without this state, by any railroad company, 
express company, boat, or other transportation com- 
pany, the carcass of one bull moose, or part of the 
carcass of one bull moose that he himself has lawfully 
killed, on the "moose" coupon attached to such license; 
also the carcass of one deer, or part of the carcass of 



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one deer, that he himself has lawfully killed, on each of 
the "deer" coupons attached to his said license, by pre- 
senting to the agent of any transportation company, his 
license, with the coupons attached to the license at the 
time when he shall offer the moose or deer for ship- 
ment. The agent receiving the carcass or part of a 
carcass, for shipment shall, if it is a moose, detach sec- 
tion "A" from the "moose" coupon of the license, cancel 
the same by writing or stamping thereon the date and 
place of shipment and his initials, and shall forward the 
same forthwith to the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game, at Augusta, Maine; section "B" of said cou- 
pon shall be likewise canceled and shall be attached to 
the carcass, or part of the carcass, of the bull moose 
ottered for shipment and shall remain attached to the 
same while it is being transported in this state. 

In case of deer received for shipment, the license 
must be presented to the agent with the coupons 
attached as aforesaid, and, if but one deer is offered for 
shipment, the agent shall detach secton "C" from the 
first "deer" coupon and shall cancel it and forward 
the same to the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game as aforesaid, and section "D" of said coupon shall 
be likewise cancelled and attached to the carcass of the 
deer or part thereof, offered for shipment and shall 
remain attached to the same while it is being trans- 
ported in this state. 

In case two deer are offered for shipment the agent 
receiving the same for shipment shall detach sections 
"C" and "E" from the "deer" coupons and after can- 
celing the same shall forward them to the commission- 
ers as aforesaid, and sections "D" and "F" shall be 
likewise canceled and attached to the carcasses of the 
deer, or parts thereof, offered for transportation and 
shall remain attached to the same while it is being 
transported in this state. 

No person shall transport any bull moose or deer, 
or parts thereof, within the state for any non-resident, 
Otherwise than qs pro^ idcd herein, 



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Any agent, servant or employee of any transporta- 
tion company, railroad company, express company, boat 
or common carrier who shall receive for shipment or 
transport, or have in his possession with intent to ship 
or transport, any carcass of a bull moose, or part 
of the same, or any carcass of a deer or part of the 
same, for a non-resident, except as herein provided, or 
who shall refuse or neglect to detach the sections of the 
coupons as herein provided, or who shall fail to forward 
to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, at 
Augusta, Maine, as herein provided, the sections of 
coupons by him detached, shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred 
dollars and costs for each offense. 

Sec. 24. Whoever violates any provision of the two 
preceding sections, or who shall furnish to another per- 
son, or permits another person to have or use any license 
or coupon issued to him, or change or alter the same in 
any manner, or who has or uses any license or coupon 
issued to another person, or any registered guide who 
knowingly guides any non-resident in hunting who has 
not a license to hunt as herein provided, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than 
one hundred dollars and costs for each offense. 

REGISTRATION OF GUIDES. 

Section ^2. No person shall engage in the business of 
guiding, either for inland fishing or forest hunting, until 
he has caused his name, age, and residence to be 
recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, and has procured 
a certificate from said commissioners, setting forth in 
substance that he is deemed suitable to act as a guide, 
either for inland fishing or forest hunting, or both, as 
the case may be, under a penalty of fifty dollars and 
costs for each offense. Each registered guide shall, 
from time to time, as often as requested by the 
commissioners, forward, on blanks furnished him 



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by the commissioners, a statement of the number of 
persons he has guided in inland fishing and forest hunt- 
ing during the time called for in said statement, the 
number of days he has been employed as a guide, and 
such other useful information relative to inland fish and 
game, forest fires, and the preservation of the forests 
in the localities where he has guided, as the commis- 
sioners may deem of importance to the state, under a 
penalty of fifty dollars for unreasonably or wilfully 
refusing to comply with these requirements." 

"Sec. ;^s. Such registration as is provided for in 
this chapter shall be as follows : the applicant shall apply 
in writing or personally to the commissioners for regis- 
tration, or to some person designated by the commis- 
sioners, setting forth in his application whether he 
desires to be registered as a general or local guide; and 
the commissioners shall, as soon thereafter as may be, 
register such person as a guide in such class as they 
shall deem proper, after such investigation as they shall 
deem proper; but said commissioners may refuse to 
register any applicant whom they deem unfit to be a 
guide, and m»ay, for cause shown, after due notice and 
hearing, cancel any registration by them made, and may 
advance anyone from the local class to the general 
class, whenever they shall deem such person qualified 
to be a general guide. Whenever a guide registered, 
as provided in this chapter, is convicted of any violation 
of any of the inland fish and game laws, the commis- 
sioners, may, at their discretion cancel his certificate 
of registration and strike his name from the list of 
registered guides ; but such person may thereafter be 
registered again at the discretion of the commissioners. 
Any certificate canceled by virtue of this chapter shall 
be immediately returned to the commissioners, under a 
penalty of fifty dollars for refusal or neglect to comply 
with this requirement. A fee of one dollar shall be 
paid annually for the registration as herein provided. 

No person shall receive a certificate as a general guide 
unless he be at least twenty years of ago, of good repute, 



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and friendly to the inland fish and game laws, and 
will discountenance in all proper ways all violations 
thereof. He shall be thoroughly competent to traverse 
the hunting grounds in which he is licensed to guide, 
and shall be skilled in the use, management, and 
handling of such boats or canoes, on lake, pond, or 
river, as are used in the territory in which he is author- 
ized to guide, and shall be a safe person under all cir- 
cumstances to be a guide for inland fishing and forest 
hunting parties. A person may receive a certificate as 
a local guide who does not, in the judgment of the 
commissioners, possess all the necessary qualifications 
of a general guide, yet is deemed suitable to act as such 
under certain conditions ; and guides may be restricted 
in the territory in which they are permitted to guide. 
Every non-resident registered as a guide shall pay a 
fee of twenty dollars ; the commissioners may at their 
discretion refuse to issue any certificates of registration 
after October twentieth of each year, and every certifi- 
cate issued shall expire with the calendar year. An 
official badge for guides may be prepared by the com- 
missioners." 

Guide law declared to be constitutional. State vs. 
Snowman. '94 Maine Reports, page 99. 

LICENSED CAMP PROPRIETORS AND 
HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS. 

Sec. 31. "No person shall build, occupy, maintain or 
keep a sporting camp, lodge or place of resort for inland 
hunting or fishing parties in any place, nor engage in 
the business of hunting or trapping any of the fur bear- 
ing animals of the state in any of the unorganized 
townships or wild lands of the state without first procur- 
ing a license therefor from the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game, and paying a fee therefor of five 
dollars; and he shall make such report to the commis- 
sipners as may be called for; but a license to build, 
occupy, maintain or keep such sporting camp, lodge or 



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place of resort shall not be granted unless the person 
applying for the same files with his application therefor, 
the written consent of the owner or owners of the land 
or his or their agent upon which such camp, lodge or 
place of resort is or may be located; and such licensed 
persons may purchase for consumption in their sporting 
camps, lodges or places of resort, deer lawfully killed, 
but they shall keep a record of all such purchases, of 
whom purchased and the date of the purchase, and on 
December fifteenth of each year shall make written 
report thereof to the commissioners under oath ; who- 
ever violates any of the provisions of this section shall 
be fined one hundred dollars and costs for each offense ; 
the commissioners, however, may refuse to issue a 
license or licenses to such person or persons as they 
deem unsuitable." 

(Note. — This does not, as has been claimed, prevent 
the "small boy," or the "big boy," or anybody's boy, or 
anybody else, from hunting, trapping, or killing bears, 
foxes, muskrats, mink, or any other fur bearing ani- 
mal in any organized township of the State in their 
respective open season. 

(Note. — It has been erroneously claimed that a per- 
son keeping a sporting camp or lodge in an organized 
township is not required to have a license. This is 
error. Every person who keeps a camp, lodge, or place 
resorted to by inland fishing or hunting parties is 
required to procure a license, but this does not apply to 
one's own private camp or lodge, but to those only who 
entertain fishermen or hunters for profit; a person hav- 
ing several oulying camps and but one home or main 
camp requires but one license.) 

LICENSED MARKETMEN AND PROVISION 
DEALERS. 

"Section 29 as am. by Ch. 132, P. L., 1905. Sec. 10. 
Any market man or provision dealer, having an estab- 



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lished place of business in the State, may purchase and 
have in his possession at his said place of business not 
more than three deer, lawfully killed or destroyed, or 
any part thereof, at one time, and may sell the same at 
retail to his local customers, and may sell the heads of 
such deer to any licensed taxidermist; provided, how- 
ever, that said marketman or provision dealer, shall 
have procured a license of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game to carry on said business of buying 
and selling deer as aforesaid; and provided further, 
that said marketman shall record in a book kept for that 
purpose, and open to the inspection of inland fish and 
game wardens and the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game, the name and residence of each person of 
whom he purchases any inland game, and the 
date of such purchase; and if any marketman or pro- 
vision dealer shall violate the provisions of this section, 
he shall be fined five hundred dollars for each offense, 
and be prohibited for five years thereafter from the 
benefits of this section. 

All marketmen or provision dealers licensed as afore- 
said shall pay to the commissioners, in cities and towns 
of over three thousand inhabitants, five dollars annu- 
ally, and three dollars in all other places ; or instead of 
this fee, the commissioners may, at their discretion, 
issue licenses authorizing the retailing of dger as above 
specified, on payment of fifty cents for each deer 
retailed ; said marketmen and provision dealers holding 
these licenses shall, on December fifteenth, make, 
sign, and send to the commissioners, under oath, 
a statement setting forth in detail the number of deer 
by them bought, and of whom bought, and the date of 
each purchase, during the time covered by their 
licenses ; and whoever fails to make the report required 
in this section shall be subject to a penalty of one hun- 
dred dollars and costs." 



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LICENSES TO BUY AND SELL SKINS AND 
HEADS OF DEER AND SKINS OF OTHER 
WILD ANIMALS. 

Sec. 30, as am. by Sec. 7, Ch. 132, P. L., 1905. 

"The commissioners may annually issue licenses to 
suitable persons to buy and sell or tan deer skins and 
the skins of all other wild animals lawfully taken, and 
the heads of deer if not detached from the skins. Such 
persons shall keep a record of all such heads and skins 
purchased, of whom purchased and the date of purchase, 
and shall report annually to the commissioners. The 
fee for such license shall be five dollars for a county 
license and ten dollars for a State license, to be paid 
to the commissioners and by them to the treasurer of 
State ; and whoever, licensed as aforesaid, unreason- 
ably and wilfully refuses to make such report, shall 
be punished by a fine of $100.00 and costs. Whoever 
buys such skins and heads without being licensed as 
above provided shall be punished by a fine of $100.00 
and costs." 

TAXIDERMISTS. 

Sec. 10. "The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game may, upon application, issue a license to such 
persons as taxidermists, who, in their judgment, are 
skilled in that art, of good reputation, and friendly 
to the fish and game laws of the state; and may also 
issue licenses to suitable persons, whose numbers shall 
not exceed fifteen at one time, to take, kill, capture, 
and have in possession any species of birds other than 
domestic and the eggs and nests thereof for scientific 
purposes; and for such licenses the applicant shall 
pay five dollars ; but no person thus allowed to 
take and have in possession birds for scientific pur- 
poses, shall sell or offer for sale, or take any compen- 
sation for specimens of birds, nests or eggs, or dispose 
of the same, by gift or otherwise, to be taken from 



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the state, except for exchange of specimens for scien- 
tific purposes ; and for any violation of the provisions of 
this section, such persons shall be subject to a fine of 
not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars. This 
section, however, shall not authorize the killing of any 
birds nor the taking of any birds' nests or eggs thereof 
on Sunday; and the commissioners may, for cause, 
revoke any license authorized by this section. Taxi- 
dermists mentioned in this section may at all times 
have in their possession, at their places of business, fish 
and game lawfully caught or killed in open time for 
the sole purpose of preparing for and mounting the 
same; and such fish and game, or parts thereof, may 
be transported to such licensee and retained by him for 
the purposes aforesaid, under such rules, restrictions 
and limitations as shall, from time to time, be made by 
said commissioners and stated in such original license 
and additions made thereto, from time to time, by said 
commissioners. Such licenses may be revoked by said 
commissioners, at any time after notice and an oppor- 
tunity for a hearing; such licenses shall be for the term 
of three years, and each person so licensed shall, 
on or before December first of each year, make a 
detailed, written report to the commissioners of all they 
have done during the year by virtue of such license; 
and every licensee or carrier violating any of the pro- 
visions of this chapter, or of the rules, restrictions, or 
limitations set out in said license and additions thereto, 
shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty 
dollars." 

BEWARE OF LEAVING CAMP FIRES BURNING. 

Section 55 of chapter seven of the revised statutes. 

"Whoever by himself, or by his servant, agent, or 
guide, or as the servant, agent, or guide of any other 
person, shall build a camp, cooking, or other fire, or 
use an abandoned camp, cooking or other fire in or 
adjacent to any woods in this state, shall, before leaving 



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such fire, totally extinguish the same, and upon failure 
to do so such person shall be punished by a fine 
of fifty dollars, provided that such fires built upon 
the sea beach in such situation that they cannot 
spread into forest wood or cultivated lands or 
meadows, shall not be construed as prohibited by this 
act. One-half of any fine imposed and collected under 
this section shall be paid to the complainant." 

APPENDIX. 

An Act to prevent the pollution of the Waters of 
Carleton pond in Kennebec county. 

Ch. 362, P. & S. L., 1905, Sect. 5. Except as herein 
provided, no person shall use any boat on said pond or 
fish therein or harvest ice therefrom. Ice may be har- 
vested therefrom provided the taker seasonably removes 
all filth caused by such harvesting. Residents of Win- 
throp and Readfield, living within one mile and a half 
from said pond, and their guests, may fish and boat 
thereon during the months of June, July and August. 
Nothing herein shall prevent fishing through the ice in 
said pond nor the necessary uses of said pond by said 
Augusta Water District. Whoever violates this section 
shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars or im- 
prisonment not exceeding six months. 



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FROM "CARLETON'S DIGEST." 

CERTIFICATE FOR BOUNTY OX WOLF KILLED. 

Claimant's certificate. 

To the treasurer of . I hereby certify that 

on the day of A. D. 19 — , at , in 

the state of Maine, I killed the the skin of which 

I now exhibit to you ; and I claim the bounty allowed by 
law for killing the same. 

Dated at , this day of A. D. 19 — . 

Claimant. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year 
aforesaid. 

Treasurer of 

Claimant's receipt. 

On this day of A. D. 19 — , I received 

of treasurer of . dollars, 

being the bounty allowed by law for killing the ■ 

described in the above certificate. 

Claimant. 



Treasurer's certificate. 

I hereby certify that as required by law, I first cut off 
the whole of the ears and nose from the skin of the 

described in the foregoing certificate and destroyed 

the same by burning, and then paid to said the 

bounty for which I have taken his receipt as above. 

Dated at this day of A. D. 19—, 

Treasurer of 

Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year 
aforesaid. 

Justice of the Peace. 

(Note. There is not uniformity of blank complaints 
and warrants sold and in use. All of them, so far as I 
have observed, are good. The many complaints that are 
quashed or dismissed by the courts on appeal are gen- 



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erally defective in that the offense sought to be charged 
is not legally stated. By following closely these forms 
no mistake can be made.) 

SKELETON COMPLAINT WHICH MAY BE 
INSERTED IN ANY WARRANT. 

Form I. 

.STATE OF MAINE. 

County of ss. 

To Esquire, a trial justice in and for the 

county of , L. T of , in the 

county of , in behalf of said state on oath 

complains that C. D of in the county 

of on the day of A. D. 19. .* 

at in the county of *did 

unlawfully hunt, chase, catch, kill and have in posses- 
sion one caribou and parts thereof, 

* against the peace of said state and contrary to the 
form of the statute in such case made and provided. 

Wherefore, the said L. T prays that the said 

CD may be apprehended and held to answer 

to this complaint, and be further dealt with relative to 
the same according to law. 

Dated at in said county of this 

day of A. D. 19 

Trial Justice. 

STATE OF MAINE. 

County of ss. Then the above named L. T. . . . 

personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the 
above complaint. 

Before me, Trial Justice. 

Warrant. 

STATE OF MAINE. 

County of ss. 

To the sheriff of said county of , or either of 

his deputies, and to either of the constables in any town 
in said county, or to any inland fish and game warden, 
(L. S.) Greeting: 



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You are hereby required, in the name of the state of 
Maine, forthwith to arrest and bring before me, the sub- 
scriber, a trial justice in and for said county, or to some 
other trial justice in and for said county, the said C. D. 

named in the foregoing complaint, which is 

referred to as a part of this warrant, to answer to said 
state for the offense set forth in said complaint of said 

L. T , this day made on oath before me, said 

justice ; and to summon and both of said 

, to appear and give evidence touching the sub- 
ject matter of said complaint when and where you shall 
have the respondent. 

Given under my hand and seal at in said 

county of , the day of in the year, 

A. D. 19. . 

Trial Justice. 

No. 2. Taking game or birds on Sunday. 

Follow No. I to first *, then say "did then and there 
hunt, chase, catch and kill one deer" (or one moose or 
one pair of game birds as the case may be) then close 
as in No. i from second *. 

No. 3. Taking trout in close time. 

"On the day of , fished 

for and took fifteen trout, the same not being blue-back 
trout; against, etc., and contrary, etc. 

No. 4. Exposing fish for sale in close time. 

On the day of had in his 

possession with intent to sell, and did expose for sale, 
three land-locked salmon ; against, etc., and contrary 
etc. 

No. 5. Killing trout less than five inches in length. 

With force and arms caught, killed and destroyed ten 
trout, each of which was less than five inches in length ; 
against, etc., and contrary, etc. 

No. 6. Using a trawl, weir, hedge, trap, etc., in cap- 
ture of fresh water fish. 

With force and arms used a trawl, (or whatever the 
device may be) for the capture of black bass, and then 
and there captured twelve black bass with said trawl 



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from the pond in said ......... the same being 

a fresh water pond, and said black bass being fresh 
water fish; against, etc., and contrary, etc. 

No. 7. Hunting and killing deer with dogs. 

With force and arms did hunt with dogs and with 
ihem did kill and destroy one deer; against, etc., and 
contrary, etc. 

No. 8. Killing deer in close time. 

With force and arms killed and destroyed one deer; 
against, etc., and contrary, etc. 

No. 9. Killing more than two deer. 

Then and there with force and arms did kill and des- 
troy and have in his possession between the first day of 
October and the fifteenth day of December, to wit on 
the day of November, A. D three deer. 

No. 10. Transporting carcass of deer killed in close 
time. 

Transported from to the carcass of a 

deer which v/as killed between the fifteenth day of 
December and the first day of October, to wit on the 
day of September , against, etc., and con- 
trary, etc. 

No. II. Transporting part of a moose, privily. 

Transported part of a moose, to wit from 

to , the same not being open to 

view, or plainly labelled with the name and residence of 
the owner thereof, and not being accompanied by the 
owner thereof, and not having then and there the evi- 
dence of the sex of the moose attached thereto. 

No. 12. Provision dealer selling deer at retail without 
license. 

Then and there being a provision dealer having an 
established place of business, said , and not hav- 
ing procured a license of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game to carry on the business of buying 
and selling deer, had in his possession three deer, and 
then and there sold the same at retail to his local cus- 
tomers, against, etc., and contrary, etc. 



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No. 13. Having a jack light in possession in hunters' 
camp or lodge. 

Then and there in a certain camp, lodge, and place of 

resort for hunters called had in his possession 

a jack light, so called; against, etc., and contrary, etc. 

No. 14. Taking partridge with snare, etc. 

With force and arms did take one partridge with a 
snare or trap (or whatever the device may be;) against, 
etc., and contrary, etc. 

No. 15. For keeping a sporting camp, lodge, or place 
of resort without being licensed. 

Did then and there keep a sporting camp, lodge and 
place of resort for inland hunting and fishing parties, and 
not having procured a license therefor from the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game; against, etc., 
and contrary, etc. 

HUNTING AND TRAPPING WITHOUT BEING 
LICENSED. 

No. 16. Did then and there engage in the business 
of hunting and trapping the fur bearing animals of the 

state, said being an unorganized township and 

on the wild lands of the state, and not having procured 
a license therefor from the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game; against, etc., and contrary, etc. 

No. 17. Guiding without a license. 

Did on the day of A. D. 19. ., and on 

divers other days between said day of 

A. D. 19. ., and the day of the signing of this complaint, 

at in the county of 

unlawfully engage in the business of guiding for inland 
fishing and forest hunting, and not being then and there 
a registered guide either for inland fishing or forest 
hunting, and not having before engaging in the business 
of guiding as aforesaid caused his name, age and resi- 
dence to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose by 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, and not 
having then and there procured a certificate from said 
commissioners setting forth in substance that he is 



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deemed suitable to act as a local or a general guide 
cither for inland fishing or forest hunting; against, etc., 
and contrary, etc. 

(Form of petition to close streams, lakes or ponds.) 

To the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game. 
Augusta, Me. 

The undersigned, residents and taxpayers of 

in the county of , respectfully represent that in 

our judgment the best interests of the State require that 
there should be additional close time on the following 
described waters, viz : 

(Here fully describe them.) 

We therefore ask that such action be taken by your 
board, after notice and hearing, as you shall deem best, 
in accordance with the statutes in such case made and 
provided. 

Dated at this day of A. D., 19. ., 

Name. Residence. Occupation. 



FEES. 
The fees for wardens and trial justices are the same 
in all fish and game cases as for sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, 
constables, and trial justices in other criminal actions. 

FEES OF TRIAL JUSTICES. 

Receiving complaint and issuing warrant in 

criminal cases 50c 

Entering complaint in criminal prosecution, 
swearing witnesses, rendering and recording 
judgment, examining, allowing and taxing 

costs, and filing the papers 75c 

Trial of an issue in criminal case 80c 

When more than one day is used in the trial, 
for each day after the first actually employed. . $2 00 
Recognized persons charged with crimes for 
their appearance at the supreme judicial or 



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superior courts, and for certifying: and 
returning the same, with or without sureties, 25c 

Mittimus for the commitment of any person 
on a criminal accusation 25c 

OFFICERS' FEES. 

Service of warrant 50c 

Travel per mile (one way) 12c 

Summoning one witness 50c 

Travel for summoning witnesses per mile 

(one way) 12c 

Conveyance of prisoner (5 miles) $1 00 

Attending court 24 hours i 50 

An aid may be employed when necessary and allowed 
compensation. Witnesses are entitled to 12c per mile, 
one way, and 50c per day for attendance. Wardens may 
compel bystanders or onlookers to aid them in making 
an arrest. R. S., ch. 82, sec. 70. 

TRIBUTARIES. 

(Note. — What are the tributaries to a lake or pond? 
One lake or pond is not a tributary to another lake or 
pond, within the meaning of the law. "Tributary," 
taken in its ordinary meaning, means "paying tribute to" 
— "serving to increase" — in geography, "a stream which 
contributes to another body of water," — "a branch or 
affluent," — from which it follows that the tributaries to 
a lake or pond are all of its contributary sreams, but 
not another lake or pond.) 

SPECIAL,— LAKE MARANACOOK. 

It is unlawful to fish in Lake Maranocook before June 
first south of a line drawn from the post opposite George 
Webster's House to the lamp-post at the head of Green 
Street, or within 200 feet of the Dead River bridge in 
Readfield, or from the railroad bridge at Lake Marano- 
cook station. R. R. of Comrs. 



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EXPLANATIONS. 

We have many requests from citizens of other states 
for a guide's license. Any person who can show that 
he is fully qualified to act as a guide, and wants to 
come here to engage in the business of guiding in good 
faith, can be licensed, but we cannot license one of a 
party, who simply wants to avoid the law requiring 
non-residents, when camping and kindling fires on the 
wild lands of the state, to be in charge of a registered 
guide. This would simply be an evasion of the law and 
cannot be tolerated. 

The following typical questions were received from a 
New York party, which are given with the answers : 

Ques. "I represent a party of eight who make a regis- 
ered camp our headquarters. Now when we wish to 
change and visit a new locality, with our own canoes, 
can we paddle over the lakes or up river to another 
registered camp without a guide and not violate the 
law?" 

Ans. "Yes, if you do not camp and kindle a fire on 
wild land." 

Ques. "Several of us were stopping at a registered 
camp, but there was but one sleeping room. It was sug- 
gested that we pitch our tent nearby and take our meals 
at the camp ; can we do so without being in charge of a 
registered guide?" 

Ans. "Certainly, if you do not build fires on wild 
land." 

Ques. "An article in the New York Sun says, 'A pro- 
vision of Maine's game law compels every party that 
visits the state for the purpose of hunting or fishing to 
employ at least one guide ?' " 

Ans. "This is all wrong. I repeat again that our law 
simply provides that from May to November, both inclu- 
sive, non-residents, when camping and kindling fires on 
wild lands, must be in charge of a registered guide; in 



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other words, if they do not camp and kindle fires on wild 
lands they do not require a guide. This seems to be 
easily enough understood." 

Ques. "May a person who is stopping at a registered 
camp paddle off for a day's fishing without a guide, and, 
not desiring to return to dinner or other meal, may said 
person build a fire and cook a meal?" 

Ans. "You can paddle your own canoe as much as 
you choose, or fish or hunt or tramp alone, but you must 
not camp or build a fire on wild lands unless in charge 
of a registered guide." 



Indians have no more rights in hunting or fishing than 
a white man. 

There are no game preserves in Maine and cannot be 
under our laws. Fishing and fowling is free on wild 
lands. It is trespass to go upon cultivated or inclosed 
lands to hunt or fish. 

HINTS TO GUIDES. 

What is it to engage in the business of guiding? 
These words, "engage," "business" and "guiding," must 
be given their ordinary meaning obviously ; "to engage" 
in anything, means to "procure or secure" for some 
special purpose, as to engage in business, trade, engage 
in a business or pursuit. 

"Business" means a pursuit or occupation that em- 
ploys or requires energy, time, thought, profession, call- 
ing, attention, application, accuracy, method, punctu- 
ality. Fidelity and dispatch are the principal qualities 
required for the efficient conduct of business. 

"Guide, guided, guiding." The meaning of the word 
"guiding" has come to be so well understood that no 
definition^ need here be given. 

A person having a friend visit him, who goes fishing 
with him, rows a boat, or goes hunting with him, is not 
engaging in the business of guiding, and does not re- 
quire a license if he is not paid for this work. 



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A person might guide one day, or on a short single 
trip, and take pay for it and still not be liable for guid- 
ing without a license, but if he holds himself out as a 
guide, or makes it a part of his business, he must be 
licensed. 

Guides should provide themselves with all necessary 
equipment usually furnished by our best guides, such as 
dry, comfortable boats or canoes, cooking utensils, etc., 
and should look thoroughly after the comfort and pleas- 
ure of their patrons. They should make every effort to 
inform themselves about the habits of game and fish 
and where they can be found in greatest abundance at 
different periods of the open season. They should also 
inform themselves, as far as possible, upon the general 
subject of sporting interests in order to converse intelli- 
gently with their employers. They should not lead the 
conversation but always be ready to answer all ques- 
tions relating to their profession and take part in gen- 
eral conversation when solicited. A guide should always 
be careful not to intrude his presence when not re- 
quested, or to volunteer remarks or advice to visitors, 
unless directly connected with the business of guiding. 

Coarse, profane and vulgar language in the presence 
of sportsmen is very objectionable to them, as a rule, 
and is liable to effect a guide's business very materially, 
and therefore should be guarded against. 

A popular guide is one whose services are always in 
demand. What gives him such popularity is because he 
is always on the alert and studying how he can please 
his employers and make their visits more pleasant and 
agreeable. On the other hand, if you try to see how 
little work you can do without causing your employers 
to find fault, seldom anticipating the ordinary wants of 
the tourist, frequently not ready at the appointed time 
for a start, sometimes almost Imposing on the novitiate 
sportsman, you will soon become an unpopular guide 
and have employment only a part of the season. 

Always be careful about speaking in a derogative 
manner of any sportsman or visitor, whether they have 



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employed you or not. Finding fault with sportsmen 
against whom you think you have some grievance, or 
whose ways or maimers fail to please you, will not assist 
you in procuring engagements. 

Sportsmen dislike very much to have guides talking 
about them in an uncomplimentary manner and will use 
their influence to prevent their making engagements 
with friends. 

Good taste and sense of propriety should cause guides 
to be very careful in this respect. 

Before retiring at night, be sure and ascertain what 
the plans are for the next day. If a fishing trip, have 
everything in readiness, such as live bait or worms if 
such are to be used, and also have lunch ready if dinner 
is to be taken away from camp so that there shall be 
no delay when your party is ready to start. A delay 
caused by any negligence on your part sometimes causes 
great annoyance. If fish are caught the guide should, 
without being asked to do so, clean them in the neatest 
possible way on returning from the day's fishing, or 
meanwhile if opportunity offers. 

Fish to be carried or transported any distance should 
never be "drawn." Better not be molested at all than 
"draw" them. They should be split open, the gills and 
entrails carefully removed, then thoroughly cleaned, 
wiped dry and wrapped in paper or hung in the ice 
house. No better way can be found to pack fish to 
transport than to thoroughly clean them, wipe dry, then 
wrap them in paper and pack in cool moss. Never allow 
them to come in contact with ice. Ice can be used in 
order to keep the package cool, but it should not come 
in contact with the fish. 

Under our statutes any guide convicted of a violation 
of our Fish and Game Laws shall have his registration 
certificate cancelled and be deprived of the right to do 
a guiding business for a year or more at the discretion 
of the Commissioners. 

In addition to this, the Commissoners have established 
the following rulings with reference to guides, which, if 



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violated, is liable to cause their registration to be can- 
celled unless there are very extenuating circumstances. 

1. Failure to extinguish camp-tires, whether damage 
results or not. 

2. Drunkenness w^hen under employment as a guide. 

3. Breaking an engagement with a sportsman or 
visitor when made in good faith. 

4. Leaving a sportsman or visitor before completing 
an engagement, unless discharged. 

5. Untruthful statements about Commissioners, Ward- 
ens or visitors, or untruthful reports about poaching 
being done, if made for the purpose of annoying either 
the Commissioners or Wardens, or to deceive the 
public. 

6. Dishonesty or untruthfulness in dealing with 
sportsmen or visitors. 

7. Failure to report, either to a Warden or the Com- 
missioners, any flagrant violations of the Fish and Game 
Laws coming to their notice, and giving names of viola- 
tors as far as known. 

HINTS TO SPORTSMEN. 

Sportsmen should treat their guides as honest, intelli- 
gent human beings. They are naturally sensitive and 
apt to resent any unmanly treatment very quickly. 

Sportsmen are requested to report to the Commis- 
sioners the conduct of their guides, especially if they 
are well qualified and attentive to duty, or otherwise. 
All such communications will be regarded as confiden- 
tial. 

Sportsmen, guides and everybody else are requested to 
report all violations of the Fish and Game Laws that 
come to their notice, giving names, dates and facts to 
the Commissioners, All such communications shall be 
strictly confidential. 

Don't be careless. Don't shoot before you know what 
you are shooting at. Don't leave your camp-fire until 
it is put out and you know it is all out. Read the law 
on these two points. 



INDEX. 

Androscoggin county, protection of deer in.... 48 
Androscoggin county, ice fishing prohibited 

where 7 

Androscoggin county, tributaries to lakes 

closed 7 

Aroostook county, ice fishing in, tributaries 

closed and special laws 8 

Artificial lights prohibited in hunting 46 

Artificial culture of fish 40-42-43 

Annual close time for fish 6 

Annual close time on moose, deer and caribou. . 44-45 

Annual close time on game birds 52-53 

Accidental shooting while hunting, penalty for 51 

B. 

Bounty on bears and wolves 50 

Birds, game, close time on, and insectivorous, 52-53-54-55 

Birds cannot be sold or given away, when . . 56 

Bond of wardens 59 

Bond when game is seized 58 

Birds, wild, protected 54 

Bass, length of and number to be taken 18-22 

Bass, definition of 42 

Bait fish 32 

Beaver, close time on 50 

Birds, nests and eggs taken, when 73 

C. 

Close season and close time defined 5 

Close time on moose, caribou, deer, fish and 

birds 6-44-45-46 

Cumberland county, ice fishing in, and waters 

closed 9-10 

Contraband, grapnel, spear, etc., when 31-33 

Commissioners, appointment of, duties and 

powers 34 

Cusk, Commissioners may grant permits to take, 34 to 37 

Caribou, protection of 44 

Corporation, service of warrants on 63 



90 

Certificates, Commissioners may revoke 63 

County attorneys shall prosecute 64 

Cow and calf moose protected 44 

Camps, sporting, must be registered 70 

Certificates, guides 68 

County Commissioners : 38 

Crows 54 

Close time on human beings 51 

Curlew 54 

Courts, jurisdiction of 62 

Clerks of Courts, duties of 64 

Chipmunks, or squirrels, protection of 47 

Camp-fires 51-74 

Carleton pond, Kennebec county, special law 

regarding fishing in 75 

Crops, destruction of by deer 45 

D. 

Deer, protection of, and in certain counties and 

transportation of . 44-48-57-58 

Dogs, use of, and may be killed when 46 

Dynamite, use of forbidden 31 

Dams and fishways 38 

Duck, protection of 52 to 55 

Deer skins and heads, license to sell and deal in, 73 

Doves 54 

Definition of salmon, trout, etc 42 

Drift nets, use of on Penobscot river 23 

Decisions of Courts 3-4-5 

E. 

Eels, Commissioners may grant permits to take, 34-37 

Eggs of birds protected 54 

Exempted v/aters from jurisdiction of Comrs. .. 41-42 

Eden, waters exempted in 41 

Evidence, prima facie, when 33 

Eden, protection of deer in 48 

Eagle 54 

Eastern river, protection of ducks in 56 

F. 

Franklin county, ice fishing prohibited, waters 

closed and special laws 10 to 15 

Fish, protection of, and transportation 7-32-58 



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Fish spawn, use of prohibited 31 

Fish, certain, introduction prohibited when 33 

Fish, artificial propagation of 40-42-43 

Fish, riparian proprietor may cultivate 40-42-43 

Fish and game wardens, their appointment, etc., 59-60-6B 

Fishways and dams 38 

Fisher, protection of 49 

Fines, collection and disposal of 62-63-64 

Fines for illegal killing of moose, caribou, deer, 46 

Fires, kindle 51 

Frenchman's Bay, protection of ducks, etc., in . . 56 

Fire wardens, fish and game wardens are 60 

G. 

Game birds, protection of, and defined 52 

Game birds may be taken for park purporses. ... 37 

Grapnel, use of prohibited 31 

Guides, must be registered 68 

Guides must not guide more than five persons, 51 

Game not to be given away or sold 57 

H. 

Hancock county, ice fishing in 15 

Hancock county, sale of trout prohibited in. . . . 16 
Hancock county, certain waters closed, and 

special laws 16-17 

Hawks 54 

Herons, blue 54 

Hunters and trappers, license of 70 

Human beings, close time on 51 

Hare, or rabbit, protection of 47 

Hunters, non-residents, licenses 65 

I. 

Illegal fishing, penalty for 7 

Introduction of certain fish and animals pro- 
hibited 33 

Isle au Haut, protection of deer on 48 

Ice fishing under general law 6 

J. 

Jack-lights, use of prohibited, and contraband 33-46 

Jurisdiction of courts and trial justices, etc. ... 62 



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K. 

Kennebec county, ice fishing, tributaries closed, 17 

Kennebec county, close time for fish in 6 

Kennebec county, number of bass, and length, 

which may be taken 18 

Kennebec river, protection of ducks in 55-56 

Kennebec county, protection of deer in 48 

Knox county, ice fishing in, certain waters 

closed 18-19 

Knox county, protection of deer in 48 

Kindle fires on wild lands 51 

Kezar ponds, lower and Upper, protection of 

water fowl in 5ti 

Kingfishers 54 

L. 
Lincoln county, ice fishing, and tributaries 

closed 1^ 

Lincoln county, protection of deer in 4 8 

Landlocked salmon, definition of, and close time 

on 6-42 

Lily pond, muskrats in may be killed 49 

Licenses to deal in deer skins, and heads, and 

wild animals 73 

Licenses, sporting camps and guides, market- 
men and others 65 to 74 

Licenses, non-resident hunter's 65 

Length of landlocked salmon, trout, etc 32 

Launches use of prohibited hunting ducks, 

where 56 

Moose, protection of, and transportation of 44-57-58 

Mt. Desert, protection of deer in 48 

Moose, shall not be sold or given away 56 

Muskrat, protection of 49-50 

Mink, protection of, and Comrs. may destroy .. 37-49-50 

Minnows for bait 3 2 

Merrymeeting Bay, protection of ducks in 53-55-56 

Marketmen, must be licensed 71 

Maranocook, Lake, R. & R. of Commrs., regard- 
ing fishing in 75 

Mudhens 54 

N. 
Non-residents, licenses, must employ guides, 

and fees of 51 



93 

Nets, contraband when 31-33 

O. 

Oxford county, ice fishing, special laws, certain 

waters closed 19-20-21 

Officers may arrest without warrant 62 

Open season defined 5 

Owls 54 

P. 

Piscataquis county, ice fishing, tributaries and 

waters closed 24-25-26 

Penobscot county, ice fishing, tributaries and 

waters closed 22-23 

Penobscot river, use of drift nets in 23 

Partridges, close time on 52 

Plover, close time on 52 

Protection of birds 52-53-54 

Provision dealers must be licensed 71 

Pounds of fish that may be taken 6-7 

Penalty for using forbidden implements in fish- 
ing 31 

Penalty for having contraband implements in 

possession 31 

Penalty, illegal hunting of game birds, moose, 

caribou and deer 46-52-53-54 

Penalty for dishonest officers and licensees. . . . 60-63 

Penalties, how collected and disposed of 51 

Participant compelled to testify 64 

Park purposes, game taken for 37 

Per cent, 25 of fish eggs taken to be returned. . 40 

Pollution of certain streams 43 

Prosecutions must be reported 63-65 

Q. 

Quail, protection of 52 

R. 

RufCed grouse, protection of 52 

Registered guides 68 

Rabbits, protection of 47 

S. 

St. Croix river, close time on for fishing 6 



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Somerset county, ice fishing, waters closed, 

special laws in 25 

Screens, and protection of 37-40 

Spawn, use of prohibited 31 

Spears, use of prohibited 31-33 

Seine, use of prohibited 31 

Set lines, use of prohibited when 31 

Suckers in closed waters may be taken when. . 34 

Sandpipers and snipe, protection of 52 

Sparrows, English 54 

Sable, protection of 49 

Sunday a close time on game and birds 31-49 

Search and seizure by wardens 61 

Salmon and trout, length of 32 

Sheriffs and deputies are wardens 60 

Service of warrants on corporations 63 

Snares forbidden 46 

Spoon hooks 31 

Spinners 31 

Smelts, may be taken for food purposes 34 

Swan Island, protection of deer on 48 

Snipe 52 

Squirrels, protection of 47 

Sawdust, prohibited throwing of in certain 

streams 43 

Salmon, definition of 42 

Sale of fish prohibited in certain cases 16-18 

Sagadahoc county, protection of deer in 48 

Southwest Harbor, protection of deer in 48 

Saltlick, unlawful to maintain 45 

T. 

Trovit and togue, close time on 6 

Transportation of moose, deer, game birds, 

fish 32-53-57-8 

Trawl, use of prohibited 31-33 

Traps, use of prohibited 31-46 

Tag, to send game, birds and fish 58 

Trout, length of 32 

Taxidermists, appointment of 73 

Tatlers 54 

Tremont, protection of deer in 48 



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V. 

Vultures 54 

W. 

Washington county, ice fishing in, certain 

waters closed 28 

Wolves, bounty on 50 

White perch, close time on 6 

Weir, use of prohibited when 31 

White fish 34-37 

Woodcock, close time on 52 

Wardens, appointment, powers and duties 59-60-65 

Wardens, penalty for falsely assuming to be. . . . 60 
Wild land, camping and kindling fires thereon, 

etc 51 

Waldo county, protection of deer in 48 

Waldo county, streams closed, ice fishing 27 

Y. 

York county, ice fishing in, certain waters 

closed 29 

York county, protection of deer in 48 



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